Why AWS for SQL Server?
Unmatched experience. Unparalleled performance.
AWS has helped hundreds of thousands of customers transition their SQL Server workloads to the cloud since 2008, longer than any other cloud provider. Customers continue to choose AWS for migrating and modernizing SQL Server for best price performance, license flexibility, ease of use, and innovations to manage, access, and scale their data.
With our proven expertise, we can help you easily lift and shift to SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), move to managed Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, or modernize to purpose-built databases such as Amazon Aurora.
Benefits of AWS for SQL Server
AWS for SQL Server by the numbers
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Cloud provider SQL Server users choose to run their workloads, more than the next six cloud providers combined10
AWS named a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Cloud DBMS by Gartner for the 10th consecutive yearSQL Server cloud options on AWS
Lift and shift to SQL Server on Amazon EC2
Lift and shift your on-premises SQL Server databases to Amazon EC2 with flexible licensing options. Gain full control of your environment with OS-level access while protecting existing licensing investments. Learn more.
Move to managed Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Amazon RDS frees you up to focus on application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks, including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling. Learn more.
Modernize to Amazon Aurora or AWS purpose-built databases
Modernize SQL Server to purpose-built cloud databases and accelerate innovation with open source and cloud-based technologies like Amazon Aurora. Learn more.
