April 12, 2016 at 11:48 am
I would like to build a SQL practice lab in cloud infrastructure. Some thing like, i would like to setup SQL clusters, always on and so on.
We can get some VM's with required number of cores, RAM and storage and increase as required.
For me Azure is easy as i have some exposure working on it, however i would like to evaluate Google Cloud and Amazon AWS offering also. Which one would be the best to go for considering performance, flexibility, and most importantly pricing.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
April 12, 2016 at 12:03 pm
The pricing is published for all of the vendors you listed, and each one at most have a calculator that you can use to determine what it will cost you.
The calculators, for example Azure's, go off the server and resources staying online 24/7 for the most part so that can only be adjusted by you in how long you are going to keep it going. You would also consider if you are going to use the providers templates for building a SQL Server instance (I know AWS and Azure have one) you are also paying for the SQL Server license. You might save a bit for those 2 by building your VM and then uploaded it to your environment, then you are just paying for the server itself each month.
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April 13, 2016 at 8:12 am
Make sure you shut things down regularly. The ongoing prices are fairly high.
https://blogs.endjin.com/2015/01/using-azure-automation-to-run-vms-during-office-hours-only/
April 13, 2016 at 8:21 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/13/2016)
Make sure you shut things down regularly. The ongoing prices are fairly high.https://blogs.endjin.com/2015/01/using-azure-automation-to-run-vms-during-office-hours-only/
Really good advice, I remember when I first starting Azure I forgot to shut VMs down ( and powerful ones at that ) on my personal subscription.... lets just say my eyes started watering.
April 29, 2016 at 5:16 am
Thanks for all the replies.
I am planning to build a practice lab for SQL 2012 clustering and availability services. I wanted to try the trials that each of the big players give.
AWS was not really encouraging which gives very basic vm with 1 core and 1GB RAM.
Now looking at Azure and Google Cloud options.
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