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Created on Aug 30, 2024

B2BAC - Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options.

As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud native technologies. To this point, we would like to have Sterling B2Bi support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale tier -

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/service-tier-hyperscale?view=azuresql


B2Bi 6.2 version has support for Azure SQL DB, but we need to ensure that this extends to B2BAC 1.0.0.X branch. The ability to use Azure SQL DB but specifically the ability to make use of the Hyperscale tier with confirmation of appropriate and successful testing.


What is your industry? Banking
How will this idea be used?

This will be used to ensure that our solution is robust a meets high availability requirements which extend to the SQL DB and its associated cloud infrastructure.