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Total Cost of Ownership for SQL Databases in the Cloud
Companies are hosting mission-critical applications in the cloud to take advantage of on-demand resources, availability, and elasticity. But hosting SQL databases in the cloud can come with sticker shock if workloads have high I/O performance requirements and end up overprovisioned.
The Three Elements of Cost
The three main elements of cost when hosting SQL databases in the cloud are storage, compute, and database licenses. The cloud's "shared nothing" architecture — with specific storage tied to specific databases and rigid instance types — inevitably leads to overprovisioning in all three areas. On average, customers overprovision by 30%, with some seeing as high as 70-80% to get the performance they need.
How Silk Solves Overprovisioning
The Silk Cloud DB Virtualization Platform brings shared data architecture and enterprise data services to the cloud, delivering up to 10x faster performance than cloud native alone. Customers typically see a 1.5-2x smaller footprint from thin provisioning, plus 2.5-3.5x further reduction from data compression and deduplication — combining for roughly a 5x smaller data footprint overall.
Customers save up to half of their storage and compute costs (or more, with data services) while the need for SQL database licenses shrinks in line with compute.
