That'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: Oracl

That'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.