Microsoft has announced a preview of a new Premium Windows Azure SQL Database offering. The Premium Windows Azure SQL Database product enables you to reserve capacity for your SQL Database which guarantees a fixed amount of dedicated resources (CPU, Memory and IO).
Recently I presented the topic of SQL Server in the AWS Cloud to the Queensland SQL Server User Group. The presentation provided an overview of the potential SQL Server application use cases for the AWS Cloud, in particular, I demo-ed an AlwaysOn Availability Group failover from a AWS EC2 instance to a on-premise SQL
The Cloud IaaS market is constantly on the move so an IaaS Provider’s positioning can change within a short period of time.
According to the Gartner Group, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still way ahead of all competitors and sits in the sweet spot of Magic Quadrant.