Azure databases
Make data your strategic asset. Modernize or build AI-ready apps with intelligent cloud databases.
OVERVIEW
Power AI apps and data-driven solutions at cloud scale
Run AI‑ready, mission‑critical workloads with secure, high‑performance databases that scale confidently and integrate across the Azure data and AI platform.
- Built into the Microsoft ecosystem, Azure databases integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry, connecting operational data, analytics, and AI to reduce complexity, speed innovation, and lower the cost of integration and operations.
- Azure databases deliver high performance, resilience, and security for mission‑critical workloads, with fully managed services, enterprise‑grade compliance, financially backed availability SLAs, and built‑in security to scale without compromise.
- AI solutions rely on vast amounts of data and need to search and find it, often in real-time. Azure databases enable AI solutions through built-in capabilities such as vector support, hybrid and semantic search, LangChain integration, and connectors for Microsoft Foundry.
- Data is the backbone of modern workloads, fueling innovation, insights, and compelling digital experiences. Azure databases make it easy to build ambitious applications by taking advantage of Visual Studio Code to manage development, GitHub Copilot to help write code, Microsoft Foundry to add intelligent features, and Microsoft Fabric to unify your data.
- From rapid autoscaling to sub‑millisecond latency, Azure databases deliver high performance by default, backed by automated availability, backups, and enterprise-grade security, so you can scale confidently without managing infrastructure.
- Azure provides built‑in migration and modernization tools, along with compatibility across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL, to help IT teams assess, move, and validate databases with minimal disruption, near‑zero downtime options, and clear rollback paths.
- Azure databases meet you where you are across IaaS to fully managed PaaS. Use existing engines, tools, and skills alongside native integrations with Azure Arc and Microsoft Fabric to simplify hybrid, multicloud, and data modernization scenarios.
- Azure databases deliver built in high availability, automated backups, disaster recovery, and enterprise grade security. With encryption, identity integration, continuous monitoring, and industry leading SLAs, IT teams can meet compliance and resiliency requirements without managing infrastructure.
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Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Build and modernize scalable, AI-ready applications at commercial open-source database prices.
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Migrate to a fully managed PostgreSQL database service with support for the latest versions.
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Azure Cosmos DB
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Azure SQL Database
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Azure SQL Managed Instance
Modernize SQL Server applications with a managed, automatically up-to-date instance in the cloud.
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Migrate your SQL Server workloads with ease and maintain operating system-level access.
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Azure HorizonDB (Preview)
Build and scale mission-critical applications on a new PostgreSQL cloud database service engineered for performance.
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Azure Database for MySQL
Modernize on a fully managed MySQL database service with elastic scaling.
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Oracle AI Database@Azure
Migrate your Oracle Database workloads and take advantage of the combined strengths of Oracle and Azure.
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Azure DocumentDB
Build and run MongoDB-compatible AI apps and standardize your NoSQL data with an open-source, multicloud database.
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Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
Modernize Cassandra data clusters with a scalable managed instance in the cloud.
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MongoDB Atlas on Azure
Modernize with a managed service that runs MongoDB Enterprise with full feature support.
Caching
Azure Managed Redis
Accelerate app performance with a fully managed, scalable, in-memory solution.
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Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Build and modernize scalable, AI-ready applications at commercial open-source database prices.
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Migrate to a fully managed PostgreSQL database service with support for the latest versions.
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Azure SQL Managed Instance
Modernize SQL Server applications with a managed, automatically up-to-date instance in the cloud.
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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Migrate your SQL Server workloads with ease and maintain operating system-level access.
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Azure HorizonDB (Preview)
Build and scale mission-critical applications on a new PostgreSQL cloud database service engineered for performance.
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Azure Database for MySQL
Modernize on a fully managed MySQL database service with elastic scaling.
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Oracle AI Database@Azure
Migrate your Oracle Database workloads and take advantage of the combined strengths of Oracle and Azure.
NoSQL databases
Azure Cosmos DB
Enjoy the end-to-end Azure Cosmos DB experience with the native document API.
NoSQL databases
Azure DocumentDB
Build and run MongoDB-compatible AI apps and standardize your NoSQL data with an open-source, multicloud database.
NoSQL databases
Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
Modernize Cassandra data clusters with a scalable managed instance in the cloud.
NoSQL databases
MongoDB Atlas on Azure
Modernize with a managed service that runs MongoDB Enterprise with full feature support.
Caching
Azure Managed Redis
Accelerate app performance with a fully managed, scalable, in-memory solution.
ANALYST REPORTS
Recognized by top industry analysts
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Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance: Upgrading to the Next Generation
See how Azure SQL Managed Instance delivers higher performance with up to 58% lower TCO and 60% fewer admin hours with its new next-generation General Purpose tier. -
GigaOm Benchmark: Migrating Windows Server Workloads to Azure
Learn how SQL Server on Azure virtual machines delivers superior throughput and price‑performance, along with cloud efficiencies that simplify migration and accelerate modernization. -
The Economic Benefits of Migrating On-premises Database to Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Discover how migrating to Azure Database for PostgreSQL can transform your business with measurable impact, up to 58% ROI through lower total cost of ownership, improved performance, and reduced operational complexity.
Customer stories
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RESOURCES
Choosing a database
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OFFERS
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Explore Azure database offers that help reduce costs, accelerate migrations, and start building cloud‑ready, enterprise‑grade databases on Azure.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure offers a comprehensive set of cloud database services, including fully managed SQL and NoSQL databases, open‑source options like PostgreSQL and MySQL, a MongoDB‑compatible database service, and in‑memory caching as well. These Azure databases support transactional, analytical, real‑time, and AI‑driven workloads, so you can choose the right cloud-based database for performance, scale, and reliability.
Azure Databases are part of Microsoft’s portfolio of databases that include SQL Server 2025 and Fabric Databases. - The best cloud database depends on your workload. Azure provides purpose‑built, AI-ready database services for different needs: relational databases for transactions and consistency, and non‑relational databases for low‑latency, globally scalable apps. Azure makes it easy to use multiple cloud database services together to support modern applications.
- Azure database services are AI-ready by design, with built-in capabilities that make it easier to build intelligent and generative AI applications. Many Azure databases support native vector storage and vector search, enabling similarity search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) directly within the database. Azure databases also integrate with Microsoft Foundry, providing connectors that let AI models and agents securely access live, operational data. Together, these capabilities allow developers to combine transactional data, vector embeddings, and AI services in a secure cloud database, without complex pipelines or external systems, so AI apps can reason over fresh, trusted data in real time.
- Yes. Azure provides free offers for several Azure databases, allowing you to build, test, and learn with a cloud database at no cost. This makes it easy to get started with Azure’s database services before scaling to production.
- Azure databases are fully managed, so developers don’t need to worry about patching, backups, or high availability. Azure integrates with familiar tools like Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Microsoft Foundry, making it easier to build, manage, and scale cloud database services quickly and efficiently.
- Azure databases are designed as a secure cloud database platform with built‑in security, compliance, and high availability. Azure provides encryption, network isolation, identity integration, and continuous monitoring by default, helping organizations run mission‑critical cloud database services with confidence.
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