Vă recomand o lectură interesantă de 15 pagini de la Forrester Research: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012. Câteva citate:

“With this service, you can provision a [SQL Database instance] easily, with simplified administration, high availability, scalability, and its familiar development model,”

“although there is a 150 GB limit on the individual database size with SQL Database, customers are supporting multiple terabytes by using each database as a shard and integrating it through the application.”