We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and SQL Azure based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, SQL Azure nudges slightly ahead of Amazon RDS. SQL Azure is part of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem and offers huge benefits to Microsoft / Microsoft Azure, users which represents tremendous cost savings, great security, and seamless integrations with most Microsoft products.
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"The provisioning is much faster. You don't have to prepare hardware or install software. You just need to create an instance and you have a database."
"The product's installation phase is easy."
"Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"The scalability and simple management of the infrastructure are the most valuable features."
"Because the solution is cloud-based it's highly manageable, it makes maintenance of logs, space, storage and backups much easier compared to a traditional SQL server installation."
"My impression is that this solution is quite stable."
"I am very happy with this solution; right now, I don't think there is anything I would change."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"What is really helpful about the Azure SQL is that when we have a problem with our sound queries, we can trade information about what indexes we should create on tables. It's really helpful for me and also for developers."
"The solution is efficient and easy to use."
"The SQL connector effectively syncs data to our database."
"Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
"The running cost could be improved."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security."
"Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement."
"Amazon RDS needs to have an overall dashboard where I can view all the tables in the form of pie charts and Gantt charts. The deployment is complex, and we would like to see automated scripts. It needs to incorporate performance insights."
"Technical support could be better."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"It would help if the solution was more secure."
"The product could be more competitive in terms of features, security, and scalability."
"I would like to see the cloud connectivity environment improved."
"If the product could support applications requiring an SQL server for installation, by using SQL Azure as a backend, that would be useful."
"The preset configuration switches we can select on SQL Azure should be made more liberal to work on."
"Integration needs to be improved for this solution."
"Microsoft could improve its documentation and support."
"It can have more dashboards for monitoring, which would naturally help a lot. Other than that, everything is okay."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner and IBM Db2 on Cloud. See our Amazon RDS vs. SQL Azure report.
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