The Azure Premium Storage service is for organizations putting "I/O intensive workloads" on Azure virtual machines using solid-state drive technology. The service supports 64,000 I/O operations per ...

The service is currently in preview for SQL Databases from version 2012 and up, SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) had up to 86.8% better price-performance when comparing Azure Hybrid Benefit to AWS License Mobility for three-year compute commitment, and up ...

Microsoft recently published updated guidance for running SQL Server on Azure virtual machines (VMs). I wanted to share some of the highlights of the documentation, combined with my experiences ...

Microsoft’s offer: “Customers who migrate workloads to Azure virtual machines will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three ...

Migrate workloads to SQL Server Azure Virtual Machines, and: Get three years of free extended security updates for SQL Server 2014 – only in Azure. Save with the Azure Hybrid Benefit.

Microsoft's Ignite conference was arguably headlined by Azure Arc and a revamped data analytics offering, plus Azure Stack Edge.

Over the past year, Microsoft has seen customers use Linux in a third of its Azure virtual machines, up from 25 percent.