Comment Re:And it's gonna rain (Score 1) 83
I might be mistaken, but according to what Amazon's description of RDS, they don't support read replicas of MSSQL.
Using Read Replicas, Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora...
You can with Azure. You can also run your own SQL server if you prefer that as well, and you can set up VPNs and wall off sections, and even use your own local SQL server for fault tolerance (or performance of other local processes). I haven't seen anything you mentioned that you can't do in Azure (minus perhaps having a direct connect to their azure cloud -- but I haven't checked into that eitehr). It's just more difficult to set up with AWS.