3. An enterprise-grade database-as-a-service platform with easily accessible tier-1 capabilities

4. SQL Dedicated Higher Cost Shared Lower Cost Higher AdministrationLower Administration Hybrid Cloud On Premises Off Premises SQL

5. Enterprise-grade database platform with cloud economics

6. Incremental performance and features with easy upgrade and downgrade *The 99.99% availability SLA does not apply to Web and Business editions, which continue to be supported at 99.9% availability.

7. Self-managed and Familiar Business Continuity and Data Protection Self-service restore Disaster recovery Compliance-enabled Self-managed Programmatic APIs Familiar tools and language

8. Web / BusinessBasic / Standard / Premium Machine Compute Writes Reads Memory DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 DB 7 DB 5 DB 6 DB 8 DB 9 Machine Compute Writes Reads Memory DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 DB 7 DB 5 DB 6 DB 8 DB 9 DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 DB 7 DB 5 DB 6 DB 8 DB 9 Noisy neighbor! Bounding boxes eliminates noisy neighbors

9. Performance is easily scaled up or down to meet changing workload and business needs B S0 S1 S2 P1 P2 P3

10. Use monitoring and alerts to understand and manage resource utilization

12. Premium P1 Standard SO Standard S2 [500-600] Premium P2 [400-500] Standard S1 [200-300] Basic [100-200] Basic [200-300] Basic [300-400] Basic [500-600] Basic [600-700] Scale out/in Scale up/down Basic [400-500] Basic [0-100]

13. Simplified development & management of high- throughput applications scaled out across a large number of databases SQL Database Shards

14. Self-managed and Familiar Elastic Scale and Performance Predictable performance levels Scale up/down & out/in Dashboard views of DB metrics Self-managed Programmatic APIs Familiar tools and language

15. Basic, Standard & Premium databases are protected from accidental data corruption, deletion & disaster

16. DB1 Geo-replication minimizes business interruption from possible disasters

18. Compliant and secure when configured and used responsibly

19. Auditing enhances compliance & security and provides operational insights SQL Database Auditin g Audit log Azure Storage

20. Business Continuity and Data Protection Elastic Scale and Performance Predictable performance levels Scale up/down & out/in Dashboard views of DB metrics Self-service restore Disaster recovery Compliance-enabled

21. Built-in maintenance and fault tolerance, with self-service management

22. Supports tools and platforms that you use already

23. Enterprise-grade database-as-a- service with easily accessible tier-1 capabilities

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