SQL TRANSACTION PROCESSING, PRICE-PERFORMANCE TESTING, MICROSOFT SQL SERVER EVALUATION: AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINES VS. AMAZON WEB SERVICES EC2

This report outlines the results from a GigaOm Transactional Field Test, derived from the industry-standard TPC Benchmark™ E (TPC-E), to compare two IaaS cloud database offerings:

1. Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances
2. Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM)

Get the report here.