Make sure you’re utilizing the Azure Hybrid Benefit to reduce the cost of Windows Server, SQL Server (including SQL Managed Instance and Azure SQL Database), RedHat and SUSE Linux in Azure ...

For example, an 8-core general-purpose Managed Instance costs $1,472.75 per month, and the SQL Server licensing component makes up $584 of that cost, so the total cost would be $889 per month ...

While having a small Azure SQL Database for development purposes doesn't cost a lot, it does increase developer friction -- especially if the developer does not have the permissions to create ...

The company is also making changes to Azure pricing, including reducing data transfer prices and setting a price cap for large SQL Azure databases. Azure, launched in February 2010, is Microsoft's ...

AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a ...

Microsoft and Canonical announced support for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. The support helps deliver a cost-effective solution for enterprise data management.