Do more with less on a fully managed SQL Server instance in the cloud. Get the most out of your data, reduce costs and modernise your SQL Server workloads at scale with Azure SQL Managed Instance. Read this report from Principled Technologies and see how Azure SQL Managed Instance meets your mission-critical requirements up to five times faster and costs up to 93% less than Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service.1 Get the report to explore how to use SQL Managed Instance to: - Handle more customer transactions. - Complete more financial transactions. - Analyse data and facilitate quicker business decisions. Try SQL Server in the cloud – get started with an Azure free account <[[ https://azure.microsoft.com/free/sql-on-azure/ ]]>. 1 Price-performance claims based on data from a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Principled Technologies in April 2022. The study compared performance and price performance between a 16 vCore, 64 vCore and 80 vCore Azure SQL Managed Instance using premium-series hardware on the business-critical service tier and the db.m6i.32xlarge, db.r5b.4xlarge and db.r5b.16xlarge offerings for Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) on SQL Server. Prices are based on publicly available US pricing in South Central US for Azure SQL Managed Instance and US East for AWS RDS as of April 2022 and incorporates Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server, excluding Software Assurance and support costs. Performance and price-performance results are based upon the configurations detailed in the Principled Technologies report. For benchmark data and research methodology, read Performance and value comparison of three SQL Server instances <[[ https://www.principledtechnologies.com/performance-and-value-comparison-of-three-SQL-server-instances ]]> from Principled Technologies.