Microsoft recently announced that from_September, they will make available the new service tiers for Azure SQL Database, their database-as-a-service that gives customers greater price performance and business continuity for cloud apps. They_are reducing the service tier prices from previously-announced rates, introducing a new performance level and offering hourly billing. Find the details on new service tiers, Details are below. Premium and Standard price reductions:_ Final pricing will reflect up to 50% savings from previously-published pricing._ Updated pricing will help more customers benefit from higher performance and greater business continuity. New S0 performance level:_ Within the Standard service tier, we will offer a new S0 performance level._ This new lower cost entry point will enable more customers to benefit from the features in the Standard tier. Performance levels provide a defined level of throughput that can be easily dialed up or down, based on performance demands. Hourly billing:_ Azure SQL Database will move to hourly billing for the new service tiers._ This will provide customers with greater flexibility to shift between...

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