Azure Database Solutions

• Native Azure Database Support

• Market Place:

Azure Database Offering based out of Layers

• Solutions that are offered at Infra Level, where
  • User choose a VM Image and installs the database on his own
  • Microsoft gives some VM images with preinstalled databases.
  • Market place image above belongs to this category.
  • All the DB activities have to managed by the user.
• Solutions that are offered at Platform Level
  • User chooses Database. In Relational Databases
    • SQL Server
    • mySQL/maria db
    • Postgres
  • DBA activities are automated, some of them are
    • backup/restore
    • Performance Tuning (partially)
    • Replications

QuickStart

• Portal: Refer Here
• CLI: Refer Here
• Powershell: Refer Here