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A few weeks ago, we announced the preview availability of the new Basic and Premium Elastic Database Pools Tiers with our Azure SQL Database service.  Elastic Database Pools enable you to run multiple, isolated and independent databases that can be ... [More] auto-scaled automatically across a private pool of resources dedicated to just you and your apps.  This provides a great way for software-as-a-service (SaaS) developers to better isolate their individual customers in an economical way. Today, we are announcing some nice changes to the pricing structure of Elastic Database Pools as well as changes to the density of elastic databases within a pool.  These changes make it even more attractive to use Elastic Database Pools to build your applications. Specifically, we are making the following changes: Finalizing the eDTU price – With Elastic Database Pools you purchase units of capacity that we can call eDTUs – which you can then use to run multiple databases within a pool.  We have decided to not increase the price of eDTUs as we go from preview->GA.  This means that you’ll be able to pay a much lower price (about 50% less) for eDTUs than many developers expected. Eliminating the per-database fee – In additional to lower eDTU prices, we are also eliminating the fee per database that we have had with the preview. This means you no longer need to pay a per-database charge to use an Elastic Database Pool, and makes the pricing much more attractive for scenarios where you want to have lots of small databases. Pool density – We are announcing increased density limits that enable you to run many more databases per Elastic Database pool. See the chart below under “Maximum databases per pool” for specifics. This change will take effect at the time of general availability, but you can design your apps around these numbers.  The increase pool density limits will make Elastic Database Pools event more attractive.   Below are the updated parameters for each of the Elastic Database Pool options with these new changes: For more information about Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Pools and Management tools go the technical overview here. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

A few weeks ago, we announced the preview availability of the new Basic and Premium Elastic Database Pools Tiers with our Azure SQL Database service.  Elastic Database Pools enable you to run multiple, isolated and independent databases that can be ... [More] auto-scaled automatically across a private pool of resources dedicated to just you and your apps.  This provides a great way for software-as-a-service (SaaS) developers to better isolate their individual customers in an economical way. Today, we are announcing some nice changes to the pricing structure of Elastic Database Pools as well as changes to the density of elastic databases within a pool.  These changes make it even more attractive to use Elastic Database Pools to build your applications. Specifically, we are making the following changes: Finalizing the eDTU price – With Elastic Database Pools you purchase units of capacity that we can call eDTUs – which you can then use to run multiple databases within a pool.  We have decided to not increase the price of eDTUs as we go from preview->GA.  This means that you’ll be able to pay a much lower price (about 50% less) for eDTUs than many developers expected. Eliminating the per-database fee – In additional to lower eDTU prices, we are also eliminating the fee per database that we have had with the preview. This means you no longer need to pay a per-database charge to use an Elastic Database Pool, and makes the pricing much more attractive for scenarios where you want to have lots of small databases. Pool density – We are announcing increased density limits that enable you to run many more databases per Elastic Database pool. See the chart below under “Maximum databases per pool” for specifics. This change will take effect at the time of general availability, but you can design your apps around these numbers.  The increase pool density limits will make Elastic Database Pools event more attractive.   Below are the updated parameters for each of the Elastic Database Pool options with these new changes: For more information about Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Pools and Management tools go the technical overview here. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

A few weeks ago, we announced the preview availability of the new Basic and Premium Elastic Database Pools Tiers with our Azure SQL Database service.  Elastic Database Pools enable you to run multiple, isolated and independent databases that can be ... [More] auto-scaled automatically across a private pool of resources dedicated to just you and your apps.  This provides a great way for software-as-a-service (SaaS) developers to better isolate their individual customers in an economical way. Today, we are announcing some nice changes to the pricing structure of Elastic Database Pools as well as changes to the density of elastic databases within a pool.  These changes make it even more attractive to use Elastic Database Pools to build your applications. Specifically, we are making the following changes: Finalizing the eDTU price – With Elastic Database Pools you purchase units of capacity that we can call eDTUs – which you can then use to run multiple databases within a pool.  We have decided to not increase the price of eDTUs as we go from preview->GA.  This means that you’ll be able to pay a much lower price (about 50% less) for eDTUs than many developers expected. Eliminating the per-database fee – In additional to lower eDTU prices, we are also eliminating the fee per database that we have had with the preview. This means you no longer need to pay a per-database charge to use an Elastic Database Pool, and makes the pricing much more attractive for scenarios where you want to have lots of small databases. Pool density – We are announcing increased density limits that enable you to run many more databases per Elastic Database pool. See the chart below under “Maximum databases per pool” for specifics. This change will take effect at the time of general availability, but you can design your apps around these numbers.  The increase pool density limits will make Elastic Database Pools event more attractive.   Below are the updated parameters for each of the Elastic Database Pool options with these new changes: For more information about Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Pools and Management tools go the technical overview here. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

A few weeks ago, we announced the preview availability of the new Basic and Premium Elastic Database Pools Tiers with our Azure SQL Database service.  Elastic Database Pools enable you to run multiple, isolated and independent databases that can be ... [More] auto-scaled automatically across a private pool of resources dedicated to just you and your apps.  This provides a great way for software-as-a-service (SaaS) developers to better isolate their individual customers in an economical way. Today, we are announcing some nice changes to the pricing structure of Elastic Database Pools as well as changes to the density of elastic databases within a pool.  These changes make it even more attractive to use Elastic Database Pools to build your applications. Specifically, we are making the following changes: Finalizing the eDTU price – With Elastic Database Pools you purchase units of capacity that we can call eDTUs – which you can then use to run multiple databases within a pool.  We have decided to not increase the price of eDTUs as we go from preview->GA.  This means that you’ll be able to pay a much lower price (about 50% less) for eDTUs than many developers expected. Eliminating the per-database fee – In additional to lower eDTU prices, we are also eliminating the fee per database that we have had with the preview. This means you no longer need to pay a per-database charge to use an Elastic Database Pool, and makes the pricing much more attractive for scenarios where you want to have lots of small databases. Pool density – We are announcing increased density limits that enable you to run many more databases per Elastic Database pool. See the chart below under “Maximum databases per pool” for specifics. This change will take effect at the time of general availability, but you can design your apps around these numbers.  The increase pool density limits will make Elastic Database Pools event more attractive.   Below are the updated parameters for each of the Elastic Database Pool options with these new changes: For more information about Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Pools and Management tools go the technical overview here. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

A few weeks ago, we announced the preview availability of the new Basic and Premium Elastic Database Pools Tiers with our Azure SQL Database service.  Elastic Database Pools enable you to run multiple, isolated and independent databases that can be ... [More] auto-scaled automatically across a private pool of resources dedicated to just you and your apps.  This provides a great way for software-as-a-service (SaaS) developers to better isolate their individual customers in an economical way. Today, we are announcing some nice changes to the pricing structure of Elastic Database Pools as well as changes to the density of elastic databases within a pool.  These changes make it even more attractive to use Elastic Database Pools to build your applications. Specifically, we are making the following changes: Finalizing the eDTU price – With Elastic Database Pools you purchase units of capacity that we can call eDTUs – which you can then use to run multiple databases within a pool.  We have decided to not increase the price of eDTUs as we go from preview->GA.  This means that you’ll be able to pay a much lower price (about 50% less) for eDTUs than many developers expected. Eliminating the per-database fee – In additional to lower eDTU prices, we are also eliminating the fee per database that we have had with the preview. This means you no longer need to pay a per-database charge to use an Elastic Database Pool, and makes the pricing much more attractive for scenarios where you want to have lots of small databases. Pool density – We are announcing increased density limits that enable you to run many more databases per Elastic Database pool. See the chart below under “Maximum databases per pool” for specifics. This change will take effect at the time of general availability, but you can design your apps around these numbers.  The increase pool density limits will make Elastic Database Pools event more attractive.   Below are the updated parameters for each of the Elastic Database Pool options with these new changes: For more information about Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Pools and Management tools go the technical overview here. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

Today, we’re announcing the release of the new Azure GS-series of Virtual Machine sizes, which enable Azure Premium Storage to be used with Azure G-series VM sizes. These VM sizes are now available to use in both our US and Europe regions. Earlier ... [More] this year we released the G-series of Azure Virtual Machines – which provide the largest VM size provided by any public cloud provider.  They provide up to 32-cores of CPU, 448 GB of memory and 6.59 TB of local SSD-based storage.  Today’s release of the GS-series of Azure Virtual Machines enables you to now use these large VMs with Azure Premium Storage – and enables you to perform up to 2,000 MB/sec of storage throughput , more than double any other public cloud provider.  Using the G5/GS5 VM size now also offers more than 20 gbps of network bandwidth, also more than double the network throughout provided by any other public cloud provider. These new VM offerings provide an ideal solution to your most demanding cloud based workloads, and are great for relational databases like SQL Server, MySQL, PostGres and other large data warehouse solutions. You can also use the GS-series to significantly scale-up the performance of enterprise applications like Dynamics AX. The G and GS-series of VM sizes are available to use now in our West US, East US-2, and West Europe Azure regions.  You’ll see us continue to expand availability around the world in more regions in the coming months. GS Series Size Details The below table provides more details on the exact capabilities of the new GS-series of VM sizes: Size Cores Memory Max Disk IOPS Max Disk Bandwidth (MB per second) Standard_GS1 2 28 5,000 125 Standard_GS2 4 56 10,000 250 Standard_GS3 8 112 20,000 500 Standard_GS4 16 224 40,000 1,000 Standard_GS5 32 448 80,000 2,000 Creating a GS-Series Virtual Machine Creating a new GS series VM is very easy.  Simply navigate to the Azure Preview Portal, select New(+) and choose your favorite OS or VM image type: Click the Create button, and then click the pricing tier option and select “View All” to see the full list of VM sizes. Make sure your region is West US, East US 2, or West Europe to select the G-series or the GS-Series: When choosing a GS-series VM size, the portal will create a storage account using Premium Azure Storage. You can select an existing Premium Storage account, as well, to use for the OS disk of the VM: Hitting Create will launch and provision the VM. Learn More If you would like more information on the GS-Series VM sizes as well as other Azure VM Sizes then please visit the following page for additional details: Virtual Machine Sizes for Azure. For more information on Premium Storage, please see: Premium Storage overview. Also, refer to Using Linux VMs with Premium Storage for more details on Linux deployments on Premium Storage. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

Today, we’re announcing the release of the new Azure GS-series of Virtual Machine sizes, which enable Azure Premium Storage to be used with Azure G-series VM sizes. These VM sizes are now available to use in both our US and Europe regions. Earlier ... [More] this year we released the G-series of Azure Virtual Machines – which provide the largest VM size provided by any public cloud provider.  They provide up to 32-cores of CPU, 448 GB of memory and 6.59 TB of local SSD-based storage.  Today’s release of the GS-series of Azure Virtual Machines enables you to now use these large VMs with Azure Premium Storage – and enables you to perform up to 2,000 MB/sec of storage throughput , more than double any other public cloud provider.  Using the G5/GS5 VM size now also offers more than 20 gbps of network bandwidth, also more than double the network throughout provided by any other public cloud provider. These new VM offerings provide an ideal solution to your most demanding cloud based workloads, and are great for relational databases like SQL Server, MySQL, PostGres and other large data warehouse solutions. You can also use the GS-series to significantly scale-up the performance of enterprise applications like Dynamics AX. The G and GS-series of VM sizes are available to use now in our West US, East US-2, and West Europe Azure regions.  You’ll see us continue to expand availability around the world in more regions in the coming months. GS Series Size Details The below table provides more details on the exact capabilities of the new GS-series of VM sizes: Size Cores Memory Max Disk IOPS Max Disk Bandwidth (MB per second) Standard_GS1 2 28 5,000 125 Standard_GS2 4 56 10,000 250 Standard_GS3 8 112 20,000 500 Standard_GS4 16 224 40,000 1,000 Standard_GS5 32 448 80,000 2,000 Creating a GS-Series Virtual Machine Creating a new GS series VM is very easy.  Simply navigate to the Azure Preview Portal, select New(+) and choose your favorite OS or VM image type: Click the Create button, and then click the pricing tier option and select “View All” to see the full list of VM sizes. Make sure your region is West US, East US 2, or West Europe to select the G-series or the GS-Series: When choosing a GS-series VM size, the portal will create a storage account using Premium Azure Storage. You can select an existing Premium Storage account, as well, to use for the OS disk of the VM: Hitting Create will launch and provision the VM. Learn More If you would like more information on the GS-Series VM sizes as well as other Azure VM Sizes then please visit the following page for additional details: Virtual Machine Sizes for Azure. For more information on Premium Storage, please see: Premium Storage overview. Also, refer to Using Linux VMs with Premium Storage for more details on Linux deployments on Premium Storage. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

Today, we’re announcing the release of the new Azure GS-series of Virtual Machine sizes, which enable Azure Premium Storage to be used with Azure G-series VM sizes. These VM sizes are now available to use in both our US and Europe regions. Earlier ... [More] this year we released the G-series of Azure Virtual Machines – which provide the largest VM size provided by any public cloud provider.  They provide up to 32-cores of CPU, 448 GB of memory and 6.59 TB of local SSD-based storage.  Today’s release of the GS-series of Azure Virtual Machines enables you to now use these large VMs with Azure Premium Storage – and enables you to perform up to 2,000 MB/sec of storage throughput , more than double any other public cloud provider.  Using the G5/GS5 VM size now also offers more than 20 gbps of network bandwidth, also more than double the network throughout provided by any other public cloud provider. These new VM offerings provide an ideal solution to your most demanding cloud based workloads, and are great for relational databases like SQL Server, MySQL, PostGres and other large data warehouse solutions. You can also use the GS-series to significantly scale-up the performance of enterprise applications like Dynamics AX. The G and GS-series of VM sizes are available to use now in our West US, East US-2, and West Europe Azure regions.  You’ll see us continue to expand availability around the world in more regions in the coming months. GS Series Size Details The below table provides more details on the exact capabilities of the new GS-series of VM sizes: Size Cores Memory Max Disk IOPS Max Disk Bandwidth (MB per second) Standard_GS1 2 28 5,000 125 Standard_GS2 4 56 10,000 250 Standard_GS3 8 112 20,000 500 Standard_GS4 16 224 40,000 1,000 Standard_GS5 32 448 80,000 2,000 Creating a GS-Series Virtual Machine Creating a new GS series VM is very easy.  Simply navigate to the Azure Preview Portal, select New(+) and choose your favorite OS or VM image type: Click the Create button, and then click the pricing tier option and select “View All” to see the full list of VM sizes. Make sure your region is West US, East US 2, or West Europe to select the G-series or the GS-Series: When choosing a GS-series VM size, the portal will create a storage account using Premium Azure Storage. You can select an existing Premium Storage account, as well, to use for the OS disk of the VM: Hitting Create will launch and provision the VM. Learn More If you would like more information on the GS-Series VM sizes as well as other Azure VM Sizes then please visit the following page for additional details: Virtual Machine Sizes for Azure. For more information on Premium Storage, please see: Premium Storage overview. Also, refer to Using Linux VMs with Premium Storage for more details on Linux deployments on Premium Storage. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

Today, we’re announcing the release of the new Azure GS-series of Virtual Machine sizes, which enable Azure Premium Storage to be used with Azure G-series VM sizes. These VM sizes are now available to use in both our US and Europe regions. Earlier ... [More] this year we released the G-series of Azure Virtual Machines – which provide the largest VM size provided by any public cloud provider.  They provide up to 32-cores of CPU, 448 GB of memory and 6.59 TB of local SSD-based storage.  Today’s release of the GS-series of Azure Virtual Machines enables you to now use these large VMs with Azure Premium Storage – and enables you to perform up to 2,000 MB/sec of storage throughput , more than double any other public cloud provider.  Using the G5/GS5 VM size now also offers more than 20 gbps of network bandwidth, also more than double the network throughout provided by any other public cloud provider. These new VM offerings provide an ideal solution to your most demanding cloud based workloads, and are great for relational databases like SQL Server, MySQL, PostGres and other large data warehouse solutions. You can also use the GS-series to significantly scale-up the performance of enterprise applications like Dynamics AX. The G and GS-series of VM sizes are available to use now in our West US, East US-2, and West Europe Azure regions.  You’ll see us continue to expand availability around the world in more regions in the coming months. GS Series Size Details The below table provides more details on the exact capabilities of the new GS-series of VM sizes: Size Cores Memory Max Disk IOPS Max Disk Bandwidth (MB per second) Standard_GS1 2 28 5,000 125 Standard_GS2 4 56 10,000 250 Standard_GS3 8 112 20,000 500 Standard_GS4 16 224 40,000 1,000 Standard_GS5 32 448 80,000 2,000 Creating a GS-Series Virtual Machine Creating a new GS series VM is very easy.  Simply navigate to the Azure Preview Portal, select New(+) and choose your favorite OS or VM image type: Click the Create button, and then click the pricing tier option and select “View All” to see the full list of VM sizes. Make sure your region is West US, East US 2, or West Europe to select the G-series or the GS-Series: When choosing a GS-series VM size, the portal will create a storage account using Premium Azure Storage. You can select an existing Premium Storage account, as well, to use for the OS disk of the VM: Hitting Create will launch and provision the VM. Learn More If you would like more information on the GS-Series VM sizes as well as other Azure VM Sizes then please visit the following page for additional details: Virtual Machine Sizes for Azure. For more information on Premium Storage, please see: Premium Storage overview. Also, refer to Using Linux VMs with Premium Storage for more details on Linux deployments on Premium Storage. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]

Today, we’re announcing the release of the new Azure GS-series of Virtual Machine sizes, which enable Azure Premium Storage to be used with Azure G-series VM sizes. These VM sizes are now available to use in both our US and Europe regions. Earlier ... [More] this year we released the G-series of Azure Virtual Machines – which provide the largest VM size provided by any public cloud provider.  They provide up to 32-cores of CPU, 448 GB of memory and 6.59 TB of local SSD-based storage.  Today’s release of the GS-series of Azure Virtual Machines enables you to now use these large VMs with Azure Premium Storage – and enables you to perform up to 2,000 MB/sec of storage throughput , more than double any other public cloud provider.  Using the G5/GS5 VM size now also offers more than 20 gbps of network bandwidth, also more than double the network throughout provided by any other public cloud provider. These new VM offerings provide an ideal solution to your most demanding cloud based workloads, and are great for relational databases like SQL Server, MySQL, PostGres and other large data warehouse solutions. You can also use the GS-series to significantly scale-up the performance of enterprise applications like Dynamics AX. The G and GS-series of VM sizes are available to use now in our West US, East US-2, and West Europe Azure regions.  You’ll see us continue to expand availability around the world in more regions in the coming months. GS Series Size Details The below table provides more details on the exact capabilities of the new GS-series of VM sizes: Size Cores Memory Max Disk IOPS Max Disk Bandwidth (MB per second) Standard_GS1 2 28 5,000 125 Standard_GS2 4 56 10,000 250 Standard_GS3 8 112 20,000 500 Standard_GS4 16 224 40,000 1,000 Standard_GS5 32 448 80,000 2,000 Creating a GS-Series Virtual Machine Creating a new GS series VM is very easy.  Simply navigate to the Azure Preview Portal, select New(+) and choose your favorite OS or VM image type: Click the Create button, and then click the pricing tier option and select “View All” to see the full list of VM sizes. Make sure your region is West US, East US 2, or West Europe to select the G-series or the GS-Series: When choosing a GS-series VM size, the portal will create a storage account using Premium Azure Storage. You can select an existing Premium Storage account, as well, to use for the OS disk of the VM: Hitting Create will launch and provision the VM. Learn More If you would like more information on the GS-Series VM sizes as well as other Azure VM Sizes then please visit the following page for additional details: Virtual Machine Sizes for Azure. For more information on Premium Storage, please see: Premium Storage overview. Also, refer to Using Linux VMs with Premium Storage for more details on Linux deployments on Premium Storage. Hope this helps, Scott [Less]