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Amazon RDS vs Microsoft SQL Server Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Amazon RDS is a relational database service software designed to help users set up, operate and scale databases such as Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL in the cloud. Users can manage routine database tasks like patching and provisioning, and more.

SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDMS) designed to help businesses of all sizes analyze structured or unstructured data across various data environments including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, MySQL, and more.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

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Pricing

Starting from

0.01

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

209

One-time payment

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.7

220

5

4

3

2

1

159

57

4

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
85%
would recommend this app

4.6

1.9K

5

4

3

2

1

1.2K

661

55

3

1

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
85%
would recommend this app

Pros

“Configuration and out-of-the-box setups allowed for the rapid testing and then replication and rollout across the business.”
RR

Richard R.

IT Support Analyst

“same applies for reducing storage of the database, you can increase the storage but cannot lower the storage”
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Prateek G.

Senior Software Engineer

“The Blue green deployment is also a really good feature for testing out schema related or major version changes.”
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Prateek G.

Senior Software Engineer

Pros

“Licensing costs can become significant as environments grow, and some advanced administration, performance tuning, and high-availability features require specialized database expertise.”
DR

Dave R.

Manager

“From an IT administration perspective, SQL Server has been an important part of maintaining stable business operations and supporting critical enterprise systems.”
DR

Dave R.

Manager

“From an IT perspective, it provides dependable performance while simplifying database administration and long-term maintenance.”
DR

Dave R.

Manager

Cons

“It is costly for high performance workloads and complex while setting up in multi AZ deployments.”
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Shashank A.

Intern

“Doing setup become little bit difficult.”
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Ankita K.

Lead Engineer

“The I/O charges are killer.”
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Monica G.

Cloud Engineer

Cons

“The learning curve for complex query is quite high without basic knowledge of SQL language it is quite hard to write queries”
IP

Issac P.

Senior Engineer

“The licensing costs can be quite high for smaller businesses.”
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abdo e.

Data Engineer

“Also i miss a mobile Version (like SQLLite) and i think LocalDB is not an option.”
PG

Patric G.

CIO

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last reviewa month ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review24 days ago

Key features

  • Total features23
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Ad hoc Query
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Authentication
  • Automatic Backup
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Benchmarking
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Dashboard
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Dictionary Management
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Migration
  • Data Replication
  • Data Retrieval
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Virtualization
  • Data Visualization
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Encryption
  • Full Text Search
  • Mobile Access
  • Monitoring
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Multiple Programming Languages Supported
  • Multitenancy
  • Performance Analysis
  • Performance Metrics
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Relational Database Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Data Preparation
  • User Management
  • Visual Analytics
  • Total features33
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Ad hoc Query
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Authentication
  • Automatic Backup
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Benchmarking
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Dashboard
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Dictionary Management
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Migration
  • Data Replication
  • Data Retrieval
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Virtualization
  • Data Visualization
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Encryption
  • Full Text Search
  • Mobile Access
  • Monitoring
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Multiple Programming Languages Supported
  • Multitenancy
  • Performance Analysis
  • Performance Metrics
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Relational Database Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Data Preparation
  • User Management
  • Visual Analytics

Integrations

  • Total integrations2
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon EC2
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • MySQL
  • Total integrations5
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon EC2
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • MySQL