Mixed working environment + data management, powerful tools come out!

In today's increasingly complex cloud environment, enterprises need to spend more energy to manage the increasingly complex data environment. These environments often involve multiple data centers, clouds, and edge expansion, and each environment and cloud has its own set of management tools, so that IT workers need to learn to use more and more tools, and they are overwhelmed... So Azure Arc came into being! You can use Kubernetes and the infrastructure of your choice to run Azure data services in the data center, edge, and public cloud. Not limited to Azure, you can also enable data from any other public cloud.

(Comparison of management capabilities under different deployment modes)

Always up to date

Azure Arc-enabled data services frequently receive updates including service patches and new features. We will provide you with updates to the Microsoft Container Registry, and the deployment progress will be set by you according to your own policies. In this way, the local database can be kept up-to-date, while ensuring that you maintain control.

Elastic zoom

With local elastic capabilities similar to the cloud, the database can be dynamically scaled up or down in almost the same way as in Azure based on the available capacity of the infrastructure. In addition, you can also use the only hyper-scale deployment option of Azure Database for PostgreSQL hyper-scale to scale your database instance horizontally. By using a unique horizontal scale read and write, this feature provides additional improvements in capacity optimization for data workloads.

Self-service provisioning

Azure Arc also provides other cloud advantages, such as rapid deployment and large-scale automation. Due to the Kubernetes-based orchestration, the database can be deployed in a few seconds using GUI or CLI tools.

Unified management

Not only can you view and manage the entire environment and various relational databases in Azure, but you can also get logs and telemetry from the Kubernetes API to analyze the capacity and operating status of the infrastructure. In addition to localized log analysis and performance monitoring, Azure Monitor can also be used to gain comprehensive operational insights across the entire asset range.

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Scan the code or click on the link at the end of the article to watch an introduction to how Azure Arc-enabled data services support a hybrid working environment.