SQL PaaS Choices (Last Review: 18 Mar 2023)

Up-to-date with the latest feature offerings by 3 players for SQL PaaS.

	AWS RDS	​Azure SQL Database	Azure SQL Managed Instance	GCP
SQL Server Version	2019	Latest	Latest	2019
HA Model	Yes	Yes (Standard,Premium)	Yes (Standard,Premium)	Yes
Database Mail	​Yes via SES	No	Yes	No
Bulk Insert	Yes via S3 (D:\S3\)	​Yes via Azure BLOB	Yes via Azure BLOB	No

Reference:

1. https://medium.com/coach-neelon/bulk-insert-with-sql-server-on-amazon-rds-7b813a909b9f

2. https://community.talend.com/s/question/0D53p00007vCk2jCAC/howtoguide-bulk-insert-to-azure-sql-server?language=en_US

3. https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/features