Azure Databases: Your Foundation for Data
Azure offers a comprehensive suite of fully managed database services that enable you to build resilient, scalable, and secure applications. Whether you need relational, NoSQL, or hybrid solutions, Azure provides the right tools to manage your data effectively.
Leverage the power of the cloud to innovate faster, reduce operational overhead, and ensure your data is always available and protected.
Azure SQL Database
A fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) database engine that handles most database management functions such as upgrading, patching, and backups without administrator involvement.
- Intelligence and Automation: Built-in features for performance optimization, security threat detection, and automatic tuning.
- High Availability: Guarantees 99.99% availability.
- Scalability: Scale compute and storage independently as your needs grow.
- Deployment Options: Single databases, elastic pools, and web app scaling.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
A fully managed relational database service based on the open-source PostgreSQL engine. It allows developers to use the PostgreSQL community edition (and its features) with no code changes required, and also supports migrating existing apps to the cloud with minimal effort.
- Flexible Server: Offers greater control over database configuration and server parameters.
- Single Server: A fully managed PostgreSQL server.
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Built-in options for business continuity.
Azure Database for MySQL
A managed relational database service that enables you to run, manage, and scale MySQL databases in the cloud. It provides community edition MySQL with enterprise-grade capabilities.
- Flexible Server: Offers more granular control over configuration and resource management.
- Single Server: A fully managed MySQL server.
- Automated Backups & Patching: Reduces operational burden.
Azure Cosmos DB
A globally distributed, multi-model database service. It enables you to create applications with planet-scale, cross-region, and transparent application-level encryption. Cosmos DB allows you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure regions.
- Multi-Model: Supports document, key-value, graph, and column-family data.
- Guaranteed SLAs: Offers industry-leading service level agreements for throughput, latency, availability, and consistency.
- Global Distribution: Turnkey active-geo replication provides global availability.
Azure SQL Managed Instance
A cloud database service that provides deep SQL Server compatibility for existing SQL Server applications, offering a highly compatible managed instance that enables migrating on-premises SQL Server instances to Azure with minimal application changes.
- 99.99% Uptime: High availability with multiple replicas.
- SQL Server Agent: Supports SQL Server Agent jobs.
- Instance-Level Features: Supports cross-database queries, SQL Server Agent, etc.
Migrate Your Data with Ease
Azure provides tools and services to simplify database migration from on-premises or other cloud environments to Azure databases.
Azure Database Migration Service (DMS)
A fully managed service designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure data platforms with minimal downtime.
Explore DMS →Data Migration Assistant (DMA)
Helps you perform an assessment of your on-premises databases and provides recommendations for migration to Azure.
Download DMA →Transactional Replication
A powerful feature for migrating SQL Server databases with minimal downtime.
Learn about Replication →Robust Security Features
Azure databases are designed with security at their core, offering multiple layers of protection for your sensitive data.
- Advanced Threat Protection: Detects anomalous activities and potential threats.
- Data Encryption: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Always Encrypted for data at rest and in transit.
- Network Security: Virtual Network service endpoints and private endpoints.
- Access Control: Role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Active Directory integration.
Optimize Performance and Scalability
Azure database services are built to deliver high performance and scale effortlessly to meet the demands of your applications.
- Autoscaling: Automatically adjust resources based on workload.
- Performance Tiering: Choose from various performance levels to match your needs and budget.
- Read Replicas: Improve read scalability by offloading read workloads.
- Intelligent Query Processing: Optimize query performance automatically.