GigaOm, in analyzing data from a number of tests, said: "Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) indicated 3.4x better performance on Windows over Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon ...

Just how evident this latest move is occurs when Microsoft cloud platform director of marketing Nicole Herskowitz calls AWS out. In a blog post, Herskowitz writes: “It is worthwhile to note that the ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud official Tim O’Brien says.

Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) indicated 3.4x better performance on Windows over Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).

In particular I don't understand VM-to-VM communication in Azure. Really I'm taking my AWS experience and projecting it onto Azure, because I don't know what I don't know.

Creation of images in VHD format to support Azure Stack. The managed service appears similar to the AWS EC2 Image Builder, said to " the building, testing, and deployment of Virtual Machine and ...

Now that pricing metrics for Microsoft's Azure Stack can be compared to VMware Cloud on AWS, potential customers will likely revisit their initial assumptions. Enterprise customers will now be ...

This acquisition resulted in Azure Site Recovery, which precisely does the same as AWS SMS for physical servers, VMware VMs, and Hyper-V VMs running in the datacenter.

Whereas Windows Azure is a platform-as-a-service cloud, giving developers the tools they need to build and deploy Web applications, Amazon EC2 is primarily an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud ...