Windows Server and SQL Server on EC2 (via) Launched today, the pricing includes rental of the Windows license. Regular Windows is 25% to 50% more expensive than Linux, but SQL Server comes in at a hefty $1.10 per hour, which is $9636 per year (nearly three times as much as a Linux server running an open source database).
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That's crazy. For that you could buy your own rack mountable server with MS software and collocate it at a datacenter and get much better performance.
Simon - 30th October 2008 16:04 - #