Announcing Performance Optimized Storage Configuration for SQL Server on Azure VMs with SQL VM RP

With Azure SQL, we unified monitoring and management capabilities of Azure SQL DB, Managed Instance and SQL VM services. Today, SQL VM offers the maximum control on Storage and VM sizes and SQL Server configuration; other services offer full manageability with limited control. Unifying the control vs manageability levels offered by Azure SQL Services is also part of the long term Azure SQL vision.

Additionally, Azure SQL Database offers the great price-performance SLA (see this announcement from earlier this week) as well and we are continuously innovating our Azure SQL platform to provide the best performance experience for various workloads.