Service and Compute Tier

Service Tiers

• vCore-based purchasing model
  • General Purpose (Scalable compute and storage options)
  • Hyperscale (On-demand scalable storage)
  • Business Critical (High transaction rate and high resiliency)
• DTU-based purchasing model
  • Basic (for less demanding workloads)
  • Standard (for workloads with typical performance requirements)
  • Premium (for IO-intensive workloads)

Compute Tiers (for General Purpose vCore)

• Provisioned - Compute resources are pre-allocated. Billed per hour based on vCores configured
• Serverless - Compute resources are auto-scaled. Billed per second based on vCore used

Additional Resources

• Purchasing models - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn