SQL Server customers migrating their databases to the cloud have multiple choices for their cloud destination. To thoroughly assess which cloud is best for SQL Server workloads, two key factors to consider are:
1. Innovations that the cloud provider can uniquely provide.
2. Independent benchmark results.
As you consider your options for running SQL Server in the cloud, it's important to understand what the cloud provider can offer both today and tomorrow. Can they provide you with the capabilities to maximize the performance of your modern applications? Can they automatically protect you against vulnerabilities and ensure availability for your mission-critical workloads?
SQL Server customers benefit from our continued expertise developed over the past 25 years, delivering performance, security, and innovation. This includes deploying SQL Server on Azure, where we provide customers with innovations that aren’t available anywhere else. One great example of this is Azure BlobCache, which provides fast, free reads for customers. This feature alone provides tremendous value to our customers that is simply unmatched in the market today.
Additionally, we offer preconfigured, built-in security and management capabilities that automate tasks like patching, high availability, and backups. Azure also offers advanced data security that enables both vulnerability assessments and advanced threat protection. Customers benefit from all of these capabilities both when using our Azure Marketplace images and when self-installing SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.
Only Azure offers these innovations.
Benchmarks can often be useful tools for assessing your cloud options. It's important, though, to ask if those benchmarks were conducted by independent third parties and whether they used today’s industry-standard methods.
1. Innovations that the cloud provider can uniquely provide.
2. Independent benchmark results.
What innovations can the cloud provider bring to your SQL Server workloads?
As you consider your options for running SQL Server in the cloud, it's important to understand what the cloud provider can offer both today and tomorrow. Can they provide you with the capabilities to maximize the performance of your modern applications? Can they automatically protect you against vulnerabilities and ensure availability for your mission-critical workloads?
SQL Server customers benefit from our continued expertise developed over the past 25 years, delivering performance, security, and innovation. This includes deploying SQL Server on Azure, where we provide customers with innovations that aren’t available anywhere else. One great example of this is Azure BlobCache, which provides fast, free reads for customers. This feature alone provides tremendous value to our customers that is simply unmatched in the market today.
Additionally, we offer preconfigured, built-in security and management capabilities that automate tasks like patching, high availability, and backups. Azure also offers advanced data security that enables both vulnerability assessments and advanced threat protection. Customers benefit from all of these capabilities both when using our Azure Marketplace images and when self-installing SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.
Only Azure offers these innovations.
What are their performance results on independent, industry-standard benchmarks?
Benchmarks can often be useful tools for assessing your cloud options. It's important, though, to ask if those benchmarks were conducted by independent third parties and whether they used today’s industry-standard methods.
In December, an independent study by GigaOm compared SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines to AWS EC2 using a field test derived from the industry standard TPC-E benchmark. GigaOm found Azure was up to 3.4x faster and 87 percent cheaper than AWS. Today, we are pleased to announce that in GigaOm’s second benchmark analysis, using the latest virtual machine comparisons and disk striping, Azure was up to 3.6x faster and 84 percent cheaper than AWS.
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