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Azure Databases & Storage

Explore the comprehensive documentation for Azure's powerful database and storage services. This section provides detailed guides, tutorials, reference materials, and best practices to help you build and manage your data solutions on Microsoft Azure.

Azure SQL

Azure SQL offers a suite of cloud-native data services that provide relational database capabilities in Azure. Leverage managed SQL Server capabilities for your applications.

Azure SQL Managed Instance
SQL Server on Azure VMs

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service. It enables you to rapidly develop and scale high-performance applications with predictable latency and guaranteed throughput.

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for MySQL is a managed relational database service that uses the MySQL community edition database engine. It's a fully managed database service that enables you to run, manage, and scale MySQL databases in the cloud.

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a managed relational database service that uses the PostgreSQL community edition database engine. It's a fully managed database service that enables you to run, manage, and scale PostgreSQL databases in the cloud.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for MariaDB

Azure Database for MariaDB is a managed relational database service that enables you to run, manage, and scale MariaDB databases in the cloud. It is built on MariaDB community edition.

Azure Database for MariaDB

Azure Storage Services

Azure Storage offers a highly available, massively scalable, secure, and durable cloud storage solution for your data. Discover various storage options designed for different workloads.

Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is an object storage solution for storing large amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data.

Azure Blob Storage

File Storage

Azure Files offers fully managed cloud file shares that are accessible via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol or Network File System (NFS) protocol.

Queue Storage

Azure Queue Storage is a service that stores large numbers of messages that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS.

Azure Queue Storage

Table Storage

Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL key-attribute store that accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Azure cloud. It's ideal for storing large amounts of structured, non-relational data.

Azure Table Storage