Amazon takes its RDS out of beta, offers Oracle and SQL Server hosting To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime.

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In its continuing quest for cloud dominance, Amazon has taken aim at the major players in the relational database space with a new product it calls ...

Amazon is offering prebuilt machine images of Server 2012, including ones with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 backed by Amazon's Elastic Block Store cloud storage, in 19 languages.