Deployment models
Deployment models in Azure are classified based on the level of management or control. It's up to the user to select which level of management or control they prefer; either they can go for complete control by using services such as Virtual Machines, or they can use managed services where things will be managed by Azure for them.
There are two deployment models for deploying databases on Azure:
- Databases on Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS)
- Databases hosted as managed services (PaaS)
We will now try to understand the difference between deployment on Azure Virtual Machines and managed instances. Let's start with Virtual Machines.
Databases on Azure Virtual Machines
Azure provides multiple stock keeping units (SKUs) for virtual machines. There are high-compute, high-throughput (IOPS) machines that are also available along with general-use virtual machines. Instead of hosting a SQL Server, MySQL, or any other database...