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Regarding licensing, I’ve wondered why AWS RDS for SQL server is more expensive than Oracle RDS (this surprised me). Any ideas why that is?
by plasma 6y ago
Regarding licensing, I’ve wondered why AWS RDS for SQL server is more expensive than Oracle RDS (this surprised me).
Any ideas why that is?
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoI assume because AWS has to run SQL Server on real Windows machines and Amazon couldn't negotiate a good licensing rate from MS.
- WorldMaker 6y agoThat's what AWS claims. Supposedly you can reduce SQL Server costs on AWS with bring your own license (BYOL) deals with Microsoft. On the other side too: Oracle has been extremely vocally defensive against Azure (it's a giant competitor with nearly as good a salesforce, and it's a possible slippery slope to companies finding out Microsoft Dynamics offers a lot of direct competitors to the corporate management dog and pony shows that gets Oracle's foot in the door [accounting, CRM, etc]). There's been rumors that Oracle has made sweetheart licensing deals with AWS as an attempt at bulwarking against Azure dominance.