Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

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, ...

Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of serverless for Hyperscale in the Azure SQL Database, which brings together the benefits of serverless and Hyperscale into a single database solution.