News. Microsoft Cuts SQL Azure Storage Pricing. By Kurt Mackie; 02/14/2012; Microsoft decreased its SQL Azure pricing again, and added a new 100 MB database storage option.

If you rent SQL Server in Azure, the price of SQL Server stays the same. For Standard and Enterprise edition, respectively, the monthly price per core will remain at $73 and $274.

Microsoft's new SQL Azure pricing opens the company's cloud computing platform ... depending on the performance of the server used, they start at 11¢ per hour for computation plus 10¢ per GB.

Microsoft slashes SQL Azure pricing. By Liam Tung. Feb 16 2012 7:04AM. Giants slice and ... For example, SQL Server Express Edition is free on Amazon's EC2 but can only scale to 4 GB, ...

For SQL Server and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, you’ll get free ESUs on Azure until July 12, 2025; Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 extended support goes away on October 10, 2026.

The appeal of cost savings in moving SQL server farms to the cloud as part of this modernization cannot be overstated. Cloud giants like Azure, AWS, GCP and Snowflake offer attractive pricing ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.