Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's fully managed PaaS database built on the SQL Server engine, the Azure peer of Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL. It offers provisioned and serverless compute tiers, built-in high availability, point-in-time restore, and deep integration with the Azure and Microsoft tooling ecosystem. An always-free offer covers a small monthly allowance of serverless vCore seconds and storage. Pricing beyond that is usage-based by vCore or DTU, so entry cost depends heavily on workload shape. It suits teams already on SQL Server or standardizing on Azure.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2010
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Managed database
- Engine type
- SQL
- Free tier
- Yes: Always-free offer: limited serverless vCore-seconds + storage per month.
- Serverless
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Multi-cloud
- No