AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless and a new capability that makes it easier to migrate from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora.

Amazon Aurora DSQL provides a distributed SQL database with 99.999% multi-Region availability, virtually unlimited scalability, strong consistency, and zero infrastructure management “Databases ...

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.

AWS released an update to its Relational Database Service (RDS) that allows users to take advantage of native SQL Server backup and restore functionality. AWS beat Microsoft Azure to market with ...

Amazon Kinesis Analytics (source: AWS) The tool uses two other Kinesis components -- Firehose and Streams -- to provide real-time analysis via SQL queries. Firehose is used to automatically load ...

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

Research firm GigaOm compared throughput performance between SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server on AWS EC2, finding the former enjoyed a definite speed edge.