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Monthly updates for Azure SQL Database: May 2019
General availability: Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in three additional regions
Target availability: Q2 2019
Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in these additional regions: UK South, East US and East US 2.
General Availability: Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance eliminating need for any changes in the existing applications when migrating to cloud is now generally available.
Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier is now in preview
Azure SQL Database serverless is a new compute tier that optimizes price performance and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent, unpredictable usage.
Azure SQL Database managed instance SKU recommendation for Data Migration Assistant is now available
Expand the scope of on-premises SQL Server assessments to migrate legacy SQL Server instances to Azure SQL Database managed instances with the new Azure SQL Database SKU recommendation functionality, which is now generally available.
Azure SQL Database serverless
Azure SQL Database is offering a new serverless compute tier that optimises price performance and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent, unpredictable usage. It helps customers focus on building apps faster and more efficiently. This new tier automatically scales compute for single databases based on workload demand and pauses during periods of inactivity. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_Hyperscale" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Azure SQL Database Edge
Azure SQL Database Edge is a small footprint database engine with built-in AI that is optimized for the intelligent edge . This new product combines data streaming and time series with in-database machine learning and graph to unlock intelligence on the edge with a simplified architecture. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_IntelligentEdge" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale support for single databases is now available
The new Hyperscale service tier for Azure SQL Database is highly scalable, enabling a database to grow as needed with support for up to 100TB.
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