Moving from Microsoft SQL Server to AWS Aurora delivers dramatically higher performance at a fraction of the cost. What’s more, Aurora is fully managed, so you don’t need to worry about database management tasks such as software patching, hardware provisioning, setup, or backups.

AWS provides a range of .NET, container and serverless compute offerings to help you modernise your Windows workloads. With the help of these services, you can reduce the complexity and cost of migrating to AWS Cloud whilst transforming your Windows workloads and the business services that run on them.

AWS provides effective services to visualise, understand and manage your AWS usage helping you optimise costs and make the most of open-source services to further reduce your commercial licensing costs. Additionally, Digital Space provides free FinOps expertise to help you manage and align business usage with an effective licensing strategy.

Microsoft’s revenue stream is derived from licensing, which explains their focus on upgrading to the most recent version and the requirement for license auditing. AWS, like the Amazon shop, has a different revenue model so they’re happy to help you minimise and manage licensing costs by running Microsoft SQLServer on Linux, offering BYOL, letting you run the old versions that your legacy applications require and keeping track of everything through AWS License Manager.