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 ...

Amazon said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. Starting ...

I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O performance and after a couple iterations I'm still coming up short.

Amazon EC2 also supports the SQL Server Express and SQL Server Standard databases. AWS currently has more than 490,000 registered developers.

Amazon’s effort is in conjunction with a new Microsoft pilot program that enables Windows Server customers with an Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Microsoft to bring their licenses to Amazon EC2 ...