Pricing of databases in Azure

I am a little bit confused about pricing for Data in Azure.
I found on one MS Blog that 50GB has a price of $125.

Missing part for me is, if I have needs only for a database in the cloud:

• Do I pay only the amount of $125?

• Or I have to pay separately for RAM, storage, processors and others parts which one server needed to operate?

• What is the story about the performance of an Azure database?

• Do all the databases have the same resources available to operate?

That blog is a bit old, so I don't know if everything is still accurate. In the Azure world things work very fast and information changes often.

Info from the main Azure site:


The prices are per database per month!


Database Size Price Per Database Per Month Database Units (DU) that
will appear on your Bill Greater than 10 GB to 50 GB $45.954 for
first 10 GB, $1.996 for each additional GB


4.6 DU for first 10 GB
0.2 DU for each additional GB

That means that if you have a single database that's under 50 GB (and higher than the previous category of 10 gb), you'll pay 125$ per month while the database is online.

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