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How does SQL Azure™ Database differ from Amazon’s Relational Database Service?

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How does SQL Azure™ Database differ from Amazon’s Relational Database Service?

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On Oct 27, 2009, Amazon announced beta availability of their new “Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)”. The service offers MySQL 5.1 hosted “in the cloud”, with limited management of the database (backups and patches), and charging per database compute time. Amazon offers the full MySQL capabilities, so existing MySQL 5.1 based applications, tools and code can run unchanged in Amazon. Customers need to use Amazon “Cloudwatch” to monitor, manage and grow their instances. Amazon is positioning the service for both developers and companies that use MySQL, and highlights benefits such as simple to deploy, managed, compatible, scalable, reliable, works with other Amazon services, secure and inexpensive. SQL Azure offers a self- managed database with the following key significant advantages: • High Availability: SQL Azure has reliable triple redundancy instantaneous and automated fail-ver, and does not require downtime for patching and maintenance. Amazon RDS does not offer any HA. • 3x