“Free” is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V — IT admins know functionality comes at a ...

To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime. RDS was beta? I've been reading about it for a few months now pending our recent move to AWS and the word beta never ...

It has been over three years since Amazon Web Services introduced its Relational Database Service (RDS). But until now, RDS has ostensibly been in "beta"—available only to a subset of customers. This ...