Azure SQL-Server is extremely expensive. It might be cheap unless you actually want to use it for something heavy. Azure is really good at making itself look c

Azure SQL-Server is extremely expensive. It might be cheap unless you actually want to use it for something heavy. Azure is really good at making itself look cheap by assuming that no one ever really needs to use its pricier performance options. It's cheap for CRUD, but once you want to crunch some numbers, like process financial statements for one month, you either wait a week to finish or pay a fortune. We looked into replacing one (1)local SQL-Server that is able to crunch our monthly statements in a few hours. It would have cost us around USD $15,000 on Azure per pop. The local machine cost $30,000 to buy + about $1000 in service plans / month, and will be used 2-5 years. And it would run other stuff for the rest of the month, at no extra cost.