Is SQL Server PaaS or IaaS?

Is SQL Server SaaS or PaaS?

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) hosted in the Azure cloud that falls into the industry categories of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). SQL database is built on standardized hardware and software that is owned, hosted, and maintained by Microsoft.

Is SQL Server a PaaS?

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine that handles most of the database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement.

Is MySQL PaaS or IaaS?

With Azure, your MySQL server workloads can run in a hosted virtual machine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or as a hosted platform as a service (PaaS).

What is difference between SQL Server and Azure SQL server?

In SQL server, databases are the only entity on the database server, but in SQL Azure, a single database can host databases from different customers. In other words, Azure SQL is multitenant and shares its physical resources with all clients who use that service.