CODING & ANALYTICS by Gbenga Oridupa

  The Azure Storage platform is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for modern data storage. The services are: Durable and highly available: Redundancy ensures that your data is safe in the event of transient hardware failures. You can also opt to replicate data across datacenters or geographical regions for additional protection from local catastrophe or natural disaster. Data replicated in this way remains highly available in the event of an unexpected outage. Secure: All data written to an Azure storage account is encrypted by the service. Azure Storage provides you with fine-grained control over who has access to your data. Scalable: Azure Storage is designed to be massively scalable to meet the data storage and performance needs of today's applications. Managed: Azure handles hardware maintenance, updates, and critical issues for you. Accessible: Data in Azure Storage is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Microsoft provides client libraries for Azure

  What is Azure SQL? Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that use the SQL Server database engine in the Azure cloud. Azure SQL Database: Support modern cloud applications on an intelligent, managed database service, that includes serverless compute. Azure SQL Managed Instance : Modernize your existing SQL Server applications at scale with an intelligent fully managed instance as a service, with almost 100% feature parity with the SQL Server database engine. Best for most migrations to the cloud. SQL Server on Azure VMs: Lift-and-shift your SQL Server workloads with ease and maintain 100% SQL Server compatibility and operating system-level access. Azure SQL is built upon the familiar SQL Server engine, so you can migrate applications with ease and continue to use the tools, languages, and resources you're familiar with. Your skills and experience transfer to the cloud, so you can do even more with what you already have. What do you want to do? Suppor