SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud DBaaS Microsoft now lets customers apply existing SQL Server licenses toward SQL Server usage on AWS managed relational database service RDS. The move promises to give customers who decided to go with AWS an easier path to consuming their SQL Server systems as a service, rather than in virtual machines. In a blog post , Amazon explained that customers paying with Microsofts Software Assurance licensing program could only previously...

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