Azure Arc–Enabled Data Services & Management

Overview

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.

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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Features

Azure Arc data services with performance, resiliency, and flexible billing

Pricing

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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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. 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.