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moving a DB shop to the cloud..

Let’s suppose your management decides to let the main SQL Server go to a cloud environment. What are the possible scenarios questions you will be asking or hoping to provide to be documented for 2-way reference.. what else can you think of other than the below?

How many drives and how big? (Data/Log)
Drives – what RAID config?
How often the backups should happen for each db(FULL,TLog etc)
Performance monitoring.
Tech/Admin Contacts
High Availability/Disaster Recover options/policy
Any custom resources: (examples: extra 2 CPU Cores 8am-noon every Monday and Wednesday etc)
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I am sorry I was not totally aware abt Azure. I thought they will just move the databases to a SQL ____ 92012 or 2014) that you specify and we will connect to it through SSMS? how is Azure different than 2012/2014 versions?

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