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Why does Microsoft Azure lead the market?

Ryan Arjun
4 min readJan 7, 2021

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We know that Azure SQL Database is under the “Intelligent Cloud” business and also the part of the Azure SQL family which is fully committed for the intelligent, scalable, relational database service built for the cloud technologies.

With Azure SQL, we can get the followings:

  1. Rehost: Move on-premises workloads to the cloud
  2. Refactor: Modernise applications for the cloud
  3. Rearchitect: Build new cloud-native SQL database applications
  4. Rebuild: Take advantage of the innovative capabilities of the cloud

Perfect for intermittent usage: Azure SQL Database serverless is best for scenarios where usage is intermittent and unpredictable and we only pay for compute resources we use on a per-second basis, optimising overall price-performance

Greatest value from current licensing: Azure SQL Managed Instance to maximise the value from our current licensing investments. Leverage our on-premises investments by bringing our SQL Server licenses with active Software Assurance to the cloud with Azure Hybrid Benefit.

Maximum flexibility and scale: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale adapts to changing requirements by rapidly scaling storage up to 100 TB. This service tier is a highly scalable storage and compute performance tier that leverages the Azure architecture to scale out the storage and compute resources for an Azure SQL Database substantially beyond the limits available for the other…

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Ryan Arjun
Ryan Arjun

Written by Ryan Arjun

BI Specialist || Azure || AWS || GCP — SQL|Python|PySpark — Talend, Alteryx, SSIS — PowerBI, Tableau, SSRS

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