2 years ago

Category: Database, Security, Microsoft, Redis, Ubuntu, Docker, Infrastructure

Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: As with the comparison between AWS and DigitalOcean, this is another example of a giant swiss army knife platform and a smaller, more focused player in the cloud computing arena. Next, comparing the performance of virtual instances is difficult because it is almost impossible to get perfectly identical instances on any two providers.

That said, there is still useful information to be gleaned by comparing different cloud providers; today we look at Microsoft’s Azure and DigitalOcean.

For example SQL Server 2012 and 2014 have the ability for you to deploy, save and backup your database directly to an Azure instance.

Azure can give you excellent integration with Windows and other environments, and it also offers a plethora of many other tools and services to enhance your cloud hosting experience.