Azure SQL Database for gaming industry workloads

Resource demand from the gaming industry is one of the highest-growing markets for cloud providers and it is critical that Microsoft Azure and Azure SQL Database offer the fastest performance coupled with the lowest price-to-performance ratios. Gaming customers are choosing Azure SQL Database over virtual machine and in-house alternatives so they can run on the latest stable version of the database engine, get built-in high-availability, automated backups and geo-replication while being able to easily scale up or out depending on new game launch requirements.