Cloud Services
- Minaz
- Oct 19, 2015
- 2 min read
There are many vendors provising cloud solutions for SQL Server . Few of them are
1. Amazon EC2
2. AWS RDS
3. SQL Azure
4. Rackspace
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service API that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. This is simialr to on premise virtulization. It provides complete control on your compter resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change.
Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. Amazon RDS handle all the backend database adminsitartion actvities includinh patching, hardware management monitoring etc. It lets you work only on the application side.
Microsoft Azure provides you two options for hosting SQL Server: Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine.
Microsoft Azure SQL Database (Azure SQL Database) is a relational database-as-a-service, which falls into the industry category Platform as a Service (PaaS). Azure SQL Database is built on standardized hardware and software that is owned, hosted, and maintained by Microsoft.
SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine (VM) falls into the industry category Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and allows you to run SQL Server inside a virtual machine in the cloud. SQL Server running in Azure VM is optimized for extending existing on-premises SQL Server applications to Azure in a hybrid scenario or deploying an existing application to Azure in a migration scenario or dev/test scenario. An example of the hybrid scenario is keeping secondary database replicas in Azure via Azure Virtual Network. With SQL Server in Azure VMs, you have the full administrative rights over a dedicated SQL Server instance and a cloud-based VM.
Rackspace provides similar services as other vendor.
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