Amazon Web Services

Twenty years ago when a startup launched, it had to hire IT, buy a bunch of computers and storage, and stitch it all together.

The cloud is based on an underlying virtual infrastructure, and today there are myriad ways to virtualize that infrastructure. While not entirely new, one hot approach is what is known as containers.

While Microsoft pushes Azure as largely designed to run SQL Server, Amazon itself offers native support for nearly a half dozen DBMS’. The latest is Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-based database engine.