Azure SQL infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service options (source: Sept. 30, 2020 Azure blog). The diagram also shows rationales for when to use Azure Arc.

Beginning July 30, customers will gain access to the general-purpose tier of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance, which Microsoft says will allow them to optimize database performance, deploy ...

Azure Arc takes ARM provisioning a step further by allowing you to configure resources running out­side of Azure. The part that is amazing and innovative is that Azure Arc can manage resources inside ...

You can also manage Azure Arc using Azure Policy, giving you governance just like you would have in Azure. Currently, you can run Azure SQL Database there, and going forward I expect to see more ...

For now, it looks like Azure SQL Database and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Hyperscale are the only two Azure services you can take with you to these other infrastructure providers. I would be ...

The SQL Server option lets you migrate existing on-premises data to Azure Stack HCI or another Arc-enabled server cluster as part of a migration process, getting data onto new hardware before ...

Thanks to this, Azure Arc doesn’t just allow you to manage containerized workloads anywhere but also includes the ability to bring services like Azure SQL Database and Azure Database for ...

More Arc goodies In concert with Arc-enabled Azure SQL's GA, Microsoft is announcing it is working with a broad network of managed service providers (MSPs) and solution integrators (SIs) to help ...

Recently Microsoft announced the general availability as per the end of July of Azure Arc-enabled SQL, which extends the Azure SQL instances to be hosted on an edge data center or in a multi-cloud env ...