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RDS for SQL Server vs. Tessell AWS

A business case comparing Amazon RDS for SQL Server against Tessell-managed SQL Server on AWS, with documented cost and performance figures from a leading collectibles authentication and grading provider running mission-critical SQL Server workloads.

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RDS for SQL Server vs. Tessell AWS

72%

Reduction in infrastructure costs

30%

Reduction in admin costs

23%

Reduction in total cost of ownership

129%

Return on investment

What's Inside

  • What IOPS throttling, EBS latency, and instance sizing mean for demanding SQL Server workloads on RDS

  • Where Tessell's IOPS advantage comes from: how EC2 with local NVMe storage delivers up to 321 percent higher IOPS and 40 to 50 percent faster query response on heavy read and write workloads.

  • Where the licensing savings come from: how Standard Edition high availability, database consolidation, and decoupled compute and storage reduce SQL Server license spend

  • What the customer study found: how a collectibles authentication and grading provider reached 1.6M IOPS, a 53x jump from its baseline, while cutting infrastructure costs

  • The full cost breakdown: a line-by-line comparison of compute, storage, backup, licensing, services, and DBA costs across RDS and Tessell

  • The TCO and ROI summary: total cost of ownership reduced by 23 percent, with a 129 percent return on investment.

"Tessell's ability to automate and streamline complex data management tasks that were once a key bottleneck for innovation and scale is like air traffic control for your databases."


Dan Van TranChief Technology Officer, Collectors

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