“Only Microsoft, as of today, offers the broadest IaaS and PaaS from a single ... and others. The Azure Web Sites support both Windows Azure SQL Database and MySQL databases, plus an array ...

In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has delivered a ... a premium security experience in our PaaS SQL offerings. When you buy SQL Azure, you're not just buying a VM-hosting SQL -- you ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

The third pillar was a database service branded as SQL Azure that had ... rearchitected Windows Azure, the PaaS, from the ground up to transform it into Microsoft Azure, the IaaS.

A couple of weeks after making available a first technical preview of its Azure ... SQL PaaS services are in "early preview," the team notes, so that user feedback can be incorporated before ...

When Microsoft originally launched Windows Azure, it was a PaaS-only cloud suited for new ... including the Service Bus, SQL Azure and Lync. The image embedded above in this post is from an ...

What began with function-as-a-service runtimes has now graduated to supporting PaaS tools and technologies ... At the heart of much of Microsoft’s cloud platform is its SQL Server database ...

Microsoft has quietly been putting a lot of impressive features in Azure SQL Database, and I expected them to land in the next version of SQL Server. While PaaS services like Azure SQL DB and ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2. The study compares ...