Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS with AMD EPYC processors

Your bill for Microsoft SQL Server on AWS consists mainly of licensing costs, not computing power. On an R8a.8xlarge instance running the Enterprise edition, the license alone accounts for over 90% of your annual expenses, making the database CPU the most important cost lever at your disposal. AMD EPYC M8a and R8a instances on Amazon RDS Amazon RDS now runs Microsoft SQL Server […]