And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage.

Azure SQL Database Serverless is a version of Microsoft SQL Server. Azure Synapse Serverless You only pay for executed queries, and the pricing is based on the amount of data processed by each query.

Azure’s Cosmos DB is one of the platform’s foundations, powering many of its key services. Designed from the ground up as a distributed database, it implements a set of different consistency ...

Behold the power of AWS into forcing Microsoft to choose a dumb name like Azure SQL Database Serverless. Clearly, I’m not a fan of the name, but the product itself is very coll. It’s a way to offer ...

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Fast facts. Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features. AI-powered intelligent performance optimization. Geospatial support. Postgres version 11 supports up to 37 ...

Microsoft is making available a new 'serverless compute' service, called Azure Functions, and is making its Platform-as-a-service offering, Azure Service Fabric, generally available.

Second, Elastic Jobs has a broader scope in Azure, running jobs on multiple Azure SQL Databases and/or data warehouses as long as they’re in the same cloud as the job agent. The targets can be on ...