Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
Pricing tiers
The cost of your SQL database depends on two things: the size of your data and the number of DTUs you have. There are three DTU-based tiers: Basic, Standard, and Premium. The Basic tier gives you five DTUs and a maximum of 2 GB of data. A DTU is a bundled measure of compute, storage, and IO resources. Simply put, the more DTUs you have, the more resources you have available and the better your database will perform.
For any serious database load, you should use either the Standard or the Premium database tiers. They cap out at 1 TB of data and 3,000 DTUs and 4 TB of data and 4,000 DTUs, respectively. The maximum amount of storage changes as you select more DTUs. The Premium tier also offers zone redundancy, meaning your database ...
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