Service tier types
At the time of writing, there are four service tiers for Azure SQL Database: Basic, Standard, Premium, and Premium RS (in preview). All of these offer support for elastic database pools and single databases. The performance of these tiers is expressed in Database Transaction Units (DTUs) for single databases, and elastic Database Transaction Units (eDTUs) for elastic database pools.
DTUs specify the performance for single databases, as they provide a specific amount of resources to that database.
On the other hand, eDTUs do not provide a dedicated set of resources for a database, as they share resources within a specific Azure SQL Server to all the databases which run that server.
For more information about DTUs and eDTUs, ...
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