Cloud Throw Down: Part 3

Now we’re going to throw down on something that I’ve had more than a few requests for. I’m going to break out and get some charts, graphs, and price differentials on AWS and Windows Azure. This throw down entry is going to be nothing but money, money, and more money. Have any guesses yet how this one is going to come out? Well read on!

Relational Database Storing 1 GB to 50 GB

This comparison may shock you. The two primary products from AWS and Windows Azure are AWS RDS, or Amazon Web Services Relation Data Store and SQL Azure. The following chart shows the initial cost at 1GB of storage in each, and then the progressive increase in price as we scale up to 50GB. There is one thing to add here, that at 50GB SQL Azure stops, so if you have more than 50GB of storage you want in a relational database, you don’t even have an option in SQL Azure. But let’s just take a look, and then I’ll go through and explain the pricing and declare the victorious.