A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud.

Research firm GigaOm compared throughput performance between SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server on AWS EC2, finding the former enjoyed a definite speed edge.

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

Now Introducing Azure SQL Database Edge Millions of developers worldwide are familiar with the SQL Server database engine and want Microsoft to provide them with a consistent programming experience no ...

Microsoft today released the 2022 version of its SQL Server database, which features a number of built-in connections to its Azure cloud.

Here’s a breakdown of public cloud customer spending on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle OCI and IBM workloads, according to Flexera’s 2025 cloud report.