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
Comprehensive security and compliance, built in
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Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
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We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are dedicated to data security and privacy.
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Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
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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.
Get started with an Azure free account
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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