Intel lands AWS deal for custom Xeon 6 chips, highlighting continuing competition with AMD and ARM in hyperscale cloud ...

AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server relies on AWS-supplied licenses and currently supports SQL Server 2019 Enterprise, Standard, and Web editions.

Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 ...

SQL Server 2012 reached End of Support in 2022 after being a mainstay for many SMBs over the past decade. Continuing to run this SQL Server version, especially on mission-critical production systems, ...

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

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 ...

AWS said it plans to invest $5 billion in Mexico over the next 15 years as a part of a 'long-term commitment' to the region.