We are delighted to announce new optimized SQL Server images in the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Gallery. These images are pre-configured with optimizations for transactional and Data Warehousing workloads respectively by baking in our performance best practices for running SQL in Azure VMs.
The following four new pre-configured VM images are now available in the Azure VM Gallery:
• SQL Server 2012 SP2 Enterprise for transactional workloads on Windows Server 2012
• SQL Server 2014 Enterprise for transactional workloads on Windows Server 2012 R2
• SQL Server 2012 SP2 Enterprise for Data Warehousing on Windows Server 2012
• SQL Server 2014 Enterprise for Data Warehousing on Windows Server 2012 R2
Please go to Azure portal and give this SQL VM image offering a try and let us know what you think.