Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

Unlike Azure SQL Database, Managed Instances are priced using a more traditional model. Users simply select the number of virtual cores -- eight, 16 or 24 -- and the rest of the configuration.

As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this Skip to content ...

In a recently commissioned study 3 conducted by IDC, migrating to Azure SQL Managed Instance delivered a 45% increase of productivity for database administrators and 27% increase in productivity ...

Microsoft is promising that the Azure SQL Database Managed Instance service enables "native virtual network support," even though the workload is hosted on Microsoft's public cloud datacenters. It's ...

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is perhaps best thought of as a way of extending on-premises data into Cosmos DB. There’s been demand for on-premises Cosmos DB since ...

Like its counterpart, Azure SQL Manages Instance, the idea here is to give users access to a scalable, cloud-based database service. To use Cassandra in Azure before, businesses had to either move ...

Since it is a single-database solution, Azure SQL Managed Instances are not available with Hyperscale. Hyperscale is currently available in public preview for single databases in the following regions ...

Similar to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, the service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis, and Amazon allows interested users to purchase Reserved Instances for a one or three-year term at a ...