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Generally Available: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose

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UrosMilanovic
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Nov 18, 2025

Improved performance and TCO with 500 databases per instance, 32TB of storage, and IOPS and memory slider.

Overview Next-gen General Purpose is the evolution of General Purpose service tier that brings significantly improved performance and scalability to power up your existing Azure SQL Managed Instanc...
Updated Dec 02, 2025
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AndyAM
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Feb 18, 2026

We upgraded all of our General Purpose Managed Instances to next-gen because the limit of 100 databases was a serious limitation for us.
However, we are also running some Business Critical Instances, which are still limited to 100 databases.
Will you upgrade the BC tier as well any time soon? It's counter intuitive to have a "lower tier" GP that has higher limits than the (much more expensive) higher tier BC.