At the time of writing, there are two types of service tiers:
- DTU service tiers
- vCore service tiers
At the time of writing, there are two types of service tiers:
At the time of writing, there are three DTU service tiers for Azure SQL Database: Basic, Standard, and Premium. All of these offer support for elastic database pools and single databases only, but not the SQL database managed instance. The performance of these tiers is expressed in Database Transaction Units (DTUs) for single databases, and elastic Database Transaction Units (eDTUs) for elastic database pools.
DTUs specify the performance for single databases, as they provide a specific amount of resources to that database.
On the other hand, eDTUs do not provide a dedicated set of resources...