No. The free tier isn't time bound. It's a configuration of the General Purpose, serverless service tier, and the free monthly amounts renew for the lifetime of your subscription. The earlier, ...

Microsoft explains how Hyperscale separates compute, logging and storage while retaining a single primary for writes and SQL Server transaction semantics.

Deploy Azure SQL Database for free, for the life of your Azure subscription. This free tier provides up to ten free General Purpose databases, each with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute, every month.

Your Veeam renewal quote lands, and the workload list reads like a cloud inventory: EC2 instances, RDS databases, S3 buckets, ...

Upgrade Cloud SQL for MySQL with sub-second switchover on Enterprise Plus, real-data read validation, and automatic endpoint ...

A research-paper retrospective explains how separating query processing, logs, pages and storage changed the scaling behavior of Azure SQL Database.

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and recovery planning before adopting it. Microsoft has made SQL Server on Azure ...

An agentic AI attacker turned compromised Microsoft Azure credentials into a weapon for destroying cloud resources in minutes in what appeared to be a ransomware or extortion attack. Microsoft ...

The JadePuffer ransomware operator is targeting Azure tenants with agent-driven attacks that conduct reconnaissance, steal credentials, and destroy core components. The malware emerged in July, with ...

Introduction: The Calm Before the 'Dashboard is Obsolete' Storm'They say if you use Snowflake's Cortex, you can just ask ...

Azure CLI is used to create and manage Azure resources from the Command Line or through scripts. This article describes how to restore a backed-up SQL database on an Azure VM using Azure CLI. You can ...

A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. Starting ...