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Azure Arc–enabled data services

Extend Azure data services and management anywhere.
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Extend Azure data services anywhere to innovate everywhere

Extend Azure capabilities to any infrastructure across multicloud, on-premises, and edge environments with Azure Arc–enabled data services.

  • Scale and automate hybrid cloud and multicloud management.
  • Unify your environments with a consistent experience and familiar tools.
  • Bring multilayered protection with built-in security capabilities to any infrastructure on premises or other clouds.

Powerful performance to meet application requirements and high availability with unlimited compute and memory

Streamlined database management with familiar tools and a billing model that lets you pay for only what you use

Enterprise-level resiliency and near-zero downtime to support your most critical workloads

Azure Arc services work even without a continuous connection so you can extend Azure from the heart of your datacenter to the middle of anywhere. Flexible connectivity modes to work anywhere, even without a continuous, direct connection to Azure

Extend cloud data management to any infrastructure Accelerate innovation with automation Lower costs with elastic scale Leverage familiar tools for a simplified experience Get multilayered protection Use multiple connectivity modes
Managing your data can be challenging. Using Azure Arc, leverage your existing infrastructure or extend Azure to other clouds for a consistent management experience. Unify, govern, and secure databases across your entire IT environment by connecting them through Azure Arc. Optimize performance and costs with elasticity and cloud billing and keep SQL environments evergreen without the downtime.
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Get seamless automated updates for your SQL databases no matter where they live to keep them always up to date. Updates are automated and seamless, compared to traditional lengthy on-premises updates. Eliminate patching and end-of-support issues to maximize efficiencies and minimize disruptions.
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Optimize performance and costs with the elasticity of Azure Arc. Scale data workloads up or down based on demand without application downtime. With a cloud billing model, pay for only what you use, drop fixed licensing costs, and gain greater transparency for application performance.
Easily extend Azure capabilities to any environment by leveraging the tools your team is already familiar with. Manage databases across your entire IT landscape right from the Azure portal. Spin up new instances in minutes compared to hours for greater performance efficiency with complete data replication and high availability. By doing more with less, direct resources where they matter most.
Protect your data with multilayer security both on premises and with Azure security capabilities. Extend key features including transparent database encryption anywhere your workloads need to run. Azure role-based access control and Azure Policy deliver the multilayer protection your data requires.
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Extend cloud benefits wherever data workloads need to run, with or without direct and continuous connection to Azure. The local Azure Arc data controller provides a full set of data management features—including provisioning, scaling, automated updates, high availability, backup, and monitoring—for maximum flexibility and consistency across your self-hosted environments.
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Comprehensive security and compliance, built in

  • Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.

  • We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are dedicated to data security and privacy.

  • Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.

  • Azure Arc pricing

    Enjoy the flexibility of having both an OPEX and a CAPEX model for your data workloads. Reduce costs with built-in capabilities and increased productivity for your database instances running in any environment. Use your current infrastructure and existing SQL Server license investment.

    In addition, SQL Server customers can use Azure Hybrid Benefit to adopt Azure Arc–enabled SQL Managed Instance with existing SQL licensing investments.

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Start free. Get $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 55+ other services that are always free.

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After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.

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After 12 months, you'll keep getting 55+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.

Trusted by companies of all sizes

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"Cloud-native patterns and practices help us deliver the factory solutions that are a key to our future success. Azure Arc-enabled data services help make this possible for us."
Jason Wallin, Principal Architect, John Deere
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"Azure Arc-enabled data services provides a database-as-a-service model for us to better serve our customers like OPET; they can now run data workloads outside of Azure and yet still enjoy all the Azure innovation and cloud benefits."

Evren Dereci, Chief Marketing Officer, KoçSistem

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"Azure Stack HCI, together with Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc-enabled data services, and Azure SQL Edge, create a scalable platform for SKF across on-premises, cloud, and edge-all with a single pane of glass while driving costs down."

Sven Vollbehr, Head of Digital Manufacturing, SKF Group

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"RBC has a large SQL Server presence, and that's where we see the biggest benefit for Azure Arc-enabled data services.... We get the latest and best technology and can bring that experience on-premises while maintaining control in a consistent way."

Khaled Zaky, Director of Product Management, Royal Bank of Canada

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Frequently asked questions about Azure Arc–enabled data services

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  • Read the blog for more information on directly connected mode for Azure Arc–enabled data services.

  • Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now generally available. Learn about the new service tiers.

    Azure Arc–enabled PostgreSQL is available in preview.

    Arc-enabled SQL Server is also available. Learn how to manage SQL Server from Azure with SQL Server on Azure Arc-enabled servers.

    More Azure data services will be introduced based on customer demand.

  • You’ll need a Kubernetes cluster as the orchestrating fabric in the environment to run Azure data services on the hardware of your choice. We’ll work with major Kubernetes distributions as supported options.

  • Azure Arc automates database management tasks for management at scale. Get fast provisioning, on-demand elastic scale, patching, setting up high availability, backup and restore, and monitoring out of the box. Azure Arc also brings data solutions on premises by extending advanced data security, Azure Backup, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and Azure role-based access control for databases running in your environment. For more information, see the infographic.

  • Azure SQL offers several deployment and management options for the SQL Server engine hosted on Azure. While Azure Arc–enabled SQL Managed Instance provides cloud platform as a service (PaaS) benefits, SQL Server on Azure Arc–enabled servers provides capabilities similar to SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines. Learn more about Azure and Azure Arc deployment options for SQL Server.

  • Explore Azure hybrid and multicloud solutions.

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