Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Preview The preview of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is currently available in 20 Azure regions, although it's a limited offering.

The choice between AWS EC2 and Azure SQL Managed Instance really depends on what you're aiming for in terms of control, maintenance, and how closely you want it to mimic a production setup. Here’s a ...

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

Important For online migrations from SQL Server to SQL Managed Instance using Azure Database Migration Service, you must provide the full database backup and subsequent log backups in the SMB network ...

On that front, Microsoft previewed Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which is an option for moving local SQL Server workloads to the Azure SQL Database service, which is hosted and managed by ...

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is perhaps best thought of as a way of extending on-premises data into Cosmos DB. There’s been demand for on-premises Cosmos DB since ...

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