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.

Azure Arc aims to alleviate the pain points by enabling Azure SQL to run on Kubernetes clusters in the cloud, on-premises, or in a datacenter. Beginning July 30, customers will gain access to the ...

With Azure Arc, Microsoft extended the core resource management capabilities of Azure to support external resources like Linux and Windows servers, Kubernetes clusters, SQL Server instances ...

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 ...

Azure Arc-enabled data services, which currently allows the Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure PostgreSQL Hyperscale database offerings to run in any environment using Kubernetes, has been in ...

Microsoft treats Arc’s database tools as two different options, separating the Arc-managed and locally hosted Azure data services from SQL Server. It’s a sensible choice if you’re looking to ...

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 ...