Announcing New Lower Price Tier for Cloud Native Applications on Azure SQL
Announcing New Lower Price Tier for Cloud Native Applications on Azure SQL
Microsoft is introducing a new pricing tier for Azure SQL Database, specifically designed for developers building cloud native applications. This new tier is based on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which offers excellent scalability and one of the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in the industry.
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is known for its outstanding performance and scalability through adaptive, cloud native resource management. It is optimized for the workload patterns of each database application, making it ideal for cloud native applications. It offers various capabilities such as creating APIs for your database using Data API builder, integration with Azure functions, and more.
One unique feature of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is the support for 30 Named Replicas, allowing different compute sizes for each replica, which is not offered by any other cloud database service. This feature is highly advantageous for highly transactional and read-scalable workloads, both in terms of performance and cost.
Additionally, Azure SQL Database Hyperscale offers rapid and predictable scaling up and down capabilities, which helps developers meet aggressive operations and sustain SLA requirements for highly scalable very large database (VLDB) systems. It is capable of handling high throughput and low latency transactional workloads, making it a powerful option for developers.
By combining Azure SQL Database Hyperscale with popular programming languages like .NET, Python, and Node running in a Kubernetes cluster, developers can easily create highly scalable solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. The data API builder allows secure exposure of database objects via REST or GraphQL endpoints, enabling access to data using modern techniques on any platform, language, or device.
Furthermore, the integration of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale with Azure Cognitive Search allows developers to create Azure OpenAI Service models, enhancing the capabilities of their applications.
In terms of pricing, Microsoft is introducing a new pricing tier for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which offers the same rich functionality of Azure SQL at a much lower compute price. This allows customers to enjoy the highest grade database capabilities of Azure SQL at a cost commonly associated with open-source databases, enabling them to do more with less.
It is important to note that Azure SQL Database does not charge for database IO in any tier, including Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.
In summary, whether you are building a database application with a small amount of data or a large-scale application with massive data storage and processing requirements, Azure SQL Database Hyperscale offers the industry's best price-performance, scalability, security, and extensibility.
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