The Azure Data Platform

The most important part of any IT system is data. Without data, applications and IT systems don't mean a thing. We discussed how to set up our applications in the IaaS and PaaS models, but how do we set up our databases?

In this chapter, we'll discuss database options and how to create environments that will host our databases.

We will cover the following topics:

• SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine
• Database as a Service (DaaS)
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure data and analytics platform