Service tiers

Azure SQL Database is available in two flavors:

• Elastic database pools
• Single databases

Elastic database pools

Elastic database pools are a great solution for managing multiple databases, scaling their performance according to the databases' needs, which means it is a good fit for databases with unpredictable usage demands, and that leads to a saving on credits. Elastic database pools share performance across many databases since all of these databases are built on a single Azure SQL Database server.

At the time of writing, elastic database pools are generally available in all Azure regions, except in West India, as they are in the preview there. However, they will be generally available there too as...