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Customers have been running Microsoft Workloads on AWS for over 12 years, longer than any other cloud provider. Customers choose AWS because we have the most experience with Microsoft applications in the cloud and we offer the best
platform for Windows Server and SQL Server in these areas: higher performance and reliability, greater security and identity services, more migration support, the broadest and deepest capabilities, lower total cost of ownership, and flexible licensing options. AWS supports everything you need to build and run Windows applications including Active Directory, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows desktop-as-a-service, and all supported versions of Windows Server. With our proven expertise, we can
help you easily lift-and-shift, refactor, or even modernize your Windows workloads. Click here to learn What's New with SQL Server on AWS. Running SQL Server on AWS Why SQL Server on AWS2x higher performance for a SQL Server workload than the next largest cloud provider* 2x more regions with multiple availability zones than the next largest cloud provider 5x more services offering encryption than the next largest cloud provider 36% savings using AWS over three years, by right-sizing instances with Migration Evaluator 442% projected 5-year ROI running Windows on AWS** Higher reliability and performance AWS has the broadest global infrastructure with 77 Availability Zones (AZ) across 24 regions and 99.99% availability for each Amazon EC2 region. By moving your SQL Server workloads to AWS, customers can realize a 98% reduction in unplanned downtime, 71% faster deployment, and 26% higher developer productivity, per IDC. AWS also delivered 2x better performance and 62% lower cost for a SQL Server workload on an EC2 R5b.8xlarge instance when directly tested against the next largest cloud provider, per Principled Technologies. Greater security and identity services AWS offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features, 3x more services than the next largest cloud provider. With the AWS Nitro System, the underlying platform for EC2 instances, we provide you with enhanced security that continuously monitors, protects, and verifies instance hardware and firmware, minimizing the attack surface from vulnerabilities and external threats. We offer AWS Managed Active Directory securely in the cloud eliminating the need for you to synchronize or replicate data from your existing Active Directory during migrations. With AWS Identity Services, you can also manage identities and permissions at scale, while providing flexible options for where and how you manage your employee, partner, and customer information. More migration experience AWS has unmatched experience helping millions of organizations reach their migration goals faster through unique tools and services. With Amazon Database Migration Service, AWS has helped customers migrate over 230,000 databases to AWS. The Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows provides best practices, tools and incentives to reduce the complexity and cost of migrating to the cloud with support from AWS Partners and Professional Services. Broadest and deepest capabilities AWS offers over 350 Amazon EC2 instances where comparable services are simply not available from other cloud providers. We provide the only fully managed services for native-Windows file system with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, enabling you to simplify management overhead and reduce costs. Amazon Elastic Block Store offers 99.999% availability, 99.999% durability, and performant block storage for your most demanding SQL Server deployments. Customers also choose AWS for the best and most consistent networking performance for Microsoft applications, delivering 3x more throughput and 25% lower latency than the next cloud provider. Lower TCO Customers can accelerate growth, drive efficiencies, and realize long-term cost reductions running SQL Server on AWS. Customers can reduce 5-year cost of operations by 56% and gain 37% lower infrastructure costs, delivering up to 442% ROI over 3 years, per IDC. AWS also offers customers more ways to save through unique pricing models such Savings Plans, which provide you with savings up to 72% on Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 Spot reduces costs by up to 90% on compute instances for fault tolerant workloads. Flexible licensing options We offer the most options for using new and existing Microsoft software licenses on AWS. By purchasing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) license-included instances, you get new, fully compliant Windows Server and SQL Server licenses from AWS. You can bring your existing licenses to AWS with Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts, Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances, or EC2 instances with default tenancy using Microsoft License Mobility through Software Assurance. AWS License Manager makes it easier to track the usage of software licenses and reduce the risk of non-compliance. Estimate cost savings from migrating SQL Server workloads to AWSThe AWS Pricing Calculator helps you estimate your total cost of ownership for running SQL Server workloads on AWS based on service configurations you need for your business. You can include pricing for support costs, Dedicated Hosts on EC2, RDS for SQL Server cost modeling, and flexible pricing options such as Savings Plans in your estimate. Get started » Achieve better price-performance for your SQL Server workloadsYou can gain faster performance at lower cost for your Windows and SQL Server workloads on AWS. A recent benchmark by Principled Technologies showed that an EC2 R5b.8xlarge instance
delivered 2x the performance & 62% cost savings for a SQL Server workload, when directly tested against the next largest cloud provider. Learn more » How AWS helps you migrate and modernize SQL Server workloads
Easy to use, high-performance block storage for SQL ServerAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with new Amazon EC2 R5b instances provides easy to use, high-performance block storage for Microsoft SQL Server. Benefit from the highest block storage performance with a single storage volume using io2 Block Express (Preview) and EC2 R5b. Other SSD-backed EBS options include io2 volumes for business-critical applications and gp3 volumes for general purpose applications. Amazon EBS also offers crash-consistent snapshots and enables application consistent snapshots through Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Services) to help protect your SQL Server deployments. Learn more » Secure and resizable compute capacity (virtual servers) in the cloud for self-managed SQL Server instances Close
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on Commercial Linux Operating System SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a fast, reliable, and secure operating environment for deploying SQL workloads SQL Server on AWS servicesOptimize SQL Server workloads on AWS with Intel Xeon Scalable ProcessorsIntel Xeon Scalable
Processors on AWS provide you with better data protection, faster processing of more data volumes, and increased service flexibility for fully managed services like Amazon RDS or compute infrastructure like Amazon EC2. Customers using RDS can gain up to 25% improvement in transactions per core with the latest generation compute instance, improving overall database performance. Learn more » Customers
What's new with SQL ServerAWS support for Internet Explorer ends on 07/31/2022. Supported browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. Learn more » What is Microsoft's cloud based service that can provide SQL Server database services?Azure SQL Database is a fully managed database service—Microsoft operates SQL Server for you and ensures its availability and performance.
What is the cloud version of SQL Server?Cloud SQL for SQL Server is a fully managed database service with a 99.95% SLA. Being fully managed includes upgrades, patching, maintenance, backups, and tuning.
Is Azure SQL Database PaaS or SAAS?Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine that handles most of the database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement.
Is Azure SQL Database cloud?Part of the Azure SQL family of SQL database services, Azure SQL Database is the intelligent, scalable database service built for the cloud with AI-powered features that maintain peak performance and durability.
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