What is the difference between Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Database managed instance?

What is the difference between Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL managed instance?

SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) provides native Virtual Network (VNet) integration while Azure SQL Database enables restricted Virtual Network (VNet) access using VNet Endpoints.

What is an Azure SQL managed instance?

Azure SQL Managed Instance is the intelligent, scalable cloud database service that combines the broadest SQL Server database engine compatibility with all the benefits of a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service.

What is the difference between Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL data warehouse?

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a service using the Microsoft SQL Server Engine (more); Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a massively parallel processing (MPP) cloud-based, scale-out, relational database capable of processing massive volumes of data (more);

Is there a difference between the versions of SQL Server and Azure SQL DB?

Azure SQL Database offers Database-as-a-service (DBaaS-PaaS). With SQL Database, you don't have access to the machines that host your databases. In contrast, Azure Virtual Machine offers Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Running SQL Server on an Azure VM is similar to running SQL Server in a On-Premise datacenter.