Product Overview
Since its initial release, Microsoft SQL Server has evolved into an industry-leading relational database platform, known for its strong performance, reliability, and security.
Among the various database management solutions available today, SQL Server remains one of the most powerful and versatile. With the release of SQL Server 2022, Microsoft continues to deliver cutting-edge capabilities to meet modern data and application demands. Microsoft SQL Server 2022 builds on previous releases introducing several new features like e.g. Big Data Clusters for SQL Server.
SQL Server 2022 introduces significant improvements across the platform, including enhanced performance tuning, faster recovery, stronger security, and advanced query processing. These updates benefit all core components of the system, such as the SQL Server Database Engine, Analysis Services, Machine Learning Services, and Master Data Services.
Running SQL Server 2022 on Windows Server 2025 through Exoscale gives organizations the flexibility of a Pay-As-You-Go model combined with the sovereignty, security, and compliance of a European cloud provider.
Highlights
- Comprehensive RDBMS Platform – Includes all essential services of a modern database: database engine, analysis and reporting tools, machine learning extensions, integration services, and master data management.
- Integrated Management Tools – Pre-installed with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Configuration Manager for easy setup, tuning, and performance profiling.
- High Resource Scalability – Supports up to 24 cores and 128 GB of memory in the Standard edition, providing ample capacity for demanding business workloads.
Editor Details
Microsoft is a global software editor and provider of a full ecosystem of server and application components. Microsoft products are available at Exoscale with on-demand usage model or as BYOL model for certain products.
Maintainer Details
Exoscale throughout its core IaaS offering maintains a comprehensive set of base images for various Linux, Windows and BSD based images that are commonly deployed and used by developers and sysadmins of software teams. The images are built via automated processes and are provided as close as possible as the original Editor image, including only the additional configuration items for a first class Exoscale integration: authentication, networking and contextualization.
Version Details
Microsoft SQL Server is available in the following versions:
- 2022 Standard on Windows Server 2025
- 2022 Standard on Windows Server 2022
Pricing
The SQL Server templates are offered in a PAYG - Pay as You Go - model. The total end customer pricing is the sum of the pure IaaS price according to the Exoscale price information including Windows and the Monthly license cost for SQL Server.
- Licensing is per CPU pair and established on a monthly basis.
- Licensing is charged with a minimum of 2xCPU pairs (i.e. 4 CPU cores minimum) per instance, making the Exoscale Standard Large instance the minimum recommended instance profile to run this software.
Usage & Technical Prerequisites
SQL Server Standard is scalable to 24 cores and 128 GB of memory. Other limits apply.
Technical Documentation
Exoscale SQL Server template is built upon the default Microsoft Windows Server template and benefits from the same features regarding the operating system layer such as:
- Cloud-init support for contextualisation
- Password reset
- WINRM remote management
- RDP management behind full firewall protection
Learn how to get started using the Windows Template in our documentation For technical limitations, please see the official vendor documentation.
Service and Support
- **For issues related to the template ** (eg.: build issues, version issues, interaction with the underlying infrastructure, etc.), the customer needs to contact the template maintainer: Exoscale support desk
- For issues related to the infrastructure (eg.: account management, virtual machine issues, etc.) the customer needs to contact Exsocale: Exoscale support desk
Terms of Service
By using this product, you agree to terms and conditions according to the Microsoft end user license agreement (EULA).