E3: Build AI apps with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Azure SQL Hyperscale separates compute and storage to scale AI app backends to 128TB
“One of the superpowers of Hyperscale is a concept called named replicas, up to 30 of them.”
Microsoft's Build session walked through Azure SQL Database Hyperscale's architecture — compute/storage separation, page servers, named replicas, and snapshot backups — positioned for cloud-native AI workloads. The AI angle is thin: it's primarily a database scaling pitch with AI mentioned as a workload type, not a substantive AI capability announcement. Newsletter relevance is low unless the issue covers AI infrastructure or Azure-specific tooling.