SQL Database as a Service

SQL database services (no matter whether it is Microsoft SQL or MySQL) is one of the easiest services to consume from the cloud infrastructure. Often, it is called SQL as a Service too. From a technical point of view, this means ordering a database that is running in the cloud infrastructure on a highly available SQL Server environment (depending on the loads your cloud provider is offering). To make it easy, this means your database(s) will run and be managed in the cloud infrastructure, and from the customer side, you will only get a connection point to this database (for example, using ODBC connection strings).