SQL TRANSACTION PROCESSING PRICE-PERFORMANCE TESTING: AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINES VS. AWS EC2 INSTANCES

Get free access to this 30-page GigaOm Transactional Field Test, derived from the industry-standard TPC Benchmark™ E (TPC-E), to compare two IaaS cloud database offerings: Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances; Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft on Azure Virtual Machines (VM). Both are installations of Microsoft SQL Server and we tested on both Windows Server OS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS.

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