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I assume because AWS has to run SQL Server on real Windows machines and Amazon couldn't negotiate a good licensing rate from MS.
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
I 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.