SQL Managed Instance

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Azure SQL Managed Instance is a PaaS database management offering based on SQL Server‘s latest database engine. This offering is designed for organizations seeking a cloud platform with the ability to control, manage, and deploy dedicated SQL Server instances as they would on-premises. Managed Instance is part of the Azure SQL brand of database services that includes Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL Edge, Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server in Azure VMs.

Product: SQL Managed Instance

Licensing: SQL Managed Instance

Near-Term Updates and Roadmap (2025–2026)

Microsoft spent the past year rebuilding the service’s storage and compute foundation and resynchronizing it with the SQL Server engine. A new General Purpose architecture, memory bought independently of vCores, zone redundancy for lower-cost deployments, an update policy aligned to SQL Server 2025, and mirroring into Microsoft Fabric all reached general availability.

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