Why AWS and Azure Benchmarks Don’t Matter to Me

AWS and Azure benchmark

Last October I wrote a review of the Gigaom SQL Transactional Processing Price-Performance test. That post references the original data warehouse test also published by Gigaom. I believe both Gigaom reports were funded by Microsoft. I found the first report on data warehousing to be of good quality. The SQL transaction report had some weak … Read more

Updated Analytics and Big Data Comparison: AWS vs. Azure

analytics and big data comparison aws versus azure

Building upon my earlier post, today I want to share with you the updated graphic and links for the analytics and big data services offered by Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It is my hope that this post will be a starting guide for you when you need to research these analytic and big … Read more

Updated Data Services Comparison: AWS vs. Azure

data services comparison aws versus azure

Last year I wrote a post comparing the data services offered by both AWS and Microsoft Azure. Well, there’s been some changes since, so it was time to provide an updated graphic and links. Since both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services offer many data services, I thought it worth the time to create a … Read more