Deployment models

There are two deployment models for deploying databases on Azure:

• Databases on Azure virtual machines (IaaS)
• Databases hosted as managed services (PaaS)

Databases on Azure virtual machines

Azure provides multiple SKUs for virtual machines. There are high-compute, high-throughput (IOPS) machines that are also available along with general-usage virtual machines. Instead of hosting a SQL Server, MySQL or any other database on on-premises servers, it is possible to deploy these databases on these virtual machines. The deployment and configuration of these databases is no different than that done for on-premises deployments. The only difference is that the database is hosted on the cloud instead of on on-premises...