Azure Service Status Check
You can check current service status via the following website.
Azure Status
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/
If there's something wrong, you can see the current Warning/Error Status as below.
You can check Status History as well.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/history/
How to ping to Azure VM.
Basically, ICMP protocol is not permitted through the Azure.
Therefore, you cannot ping to Azure VM.
Example.
There are several ways to achieve this goal.
Let me introduce 2 main methods as below.
1. Azure VPN Connection
You can ping to VM through VPN connection.
Configure a Point-to-Site connection to a VNet using the Azure portal
2. psping
"psping" is the part of "Windows Sysinternals Suite".
Usage
psping [server]:[port]
ex.
psing -n 1000 test-server.cloudapp.net:443
References.
Use port pings instead of ICMP to test Azure VM connectivity
Windows Sysinternals
: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb842062
Configure a Point-to-Site connection to a VNet using the Azure portal
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Min/Max Pricing & Performance(DTU)
Region: West Europe
Current: Euro(€)
Pricing by: Monthly
* Minimum Pricing (Starting at)
- Basic: 4.09
- Standard: 12.24
- Premium: 380.37
- PremiumRS: 97.96
* Maximum Pricing (Starting at)
- Basic: 4.09
- Standard: 122.45
- Premium: 13,495.71
- PremirumRS: 784.27
* Pricing can be different according to the contract.
* It's not possible to set smaller data size than current database size.
References:
SQL Database Pricing
: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-database/
SQL Database options and performance: Understand what's available in each service tier
: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-service-tiers
Explaining Database Transaction Units (DTUs) and elastic Database Transaction Units (eDTUs)
: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-what-is-a-dtu
