PingCAP Expands Collaboration with Microsoft Azure to Accelerate Distributed SQL Adoption
Bengaluru, India, July 23, 2025: PingCAP, the creator of the distributed SQL database TiDB, announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the adoption of modern data infrastructure across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. This collaboration brings together PingCAP’s expertise in distributed transactional and analytical systems with Microsoft’s global cloud platform to help organizations build scalable, real-time, and AI-ready applications on Azure.
As part of this expanded partnership, PingCAP is launching TiDB Cloud Dedicated in public preview on Azure, enabling enterprises to deploy distributed SQL natively within Azure’s secure, compliant, and enterprise-grade environment.
“India’s fast growing enterprises need data infrastructure that scales effortlessly, performs reliably, and integrates seamlessly with their existing cloud environments,” said Bhanu Jamwal, Head of India Business, TiDB. “With TiDB Cloud Dedicated now available on Microsoft Azure, we’re enabling customers to meet these demands – offering a fully-managed, high-performance distributed database that simplifies operations and accelerates innovation.”
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This partnership will include go-to-market initiatives, account alignment, and co-selling efforts focused on helping organizations modernize legacy data architectures. With distributed SQL, customers can eliminate the complexity of sharding, reduce operational overhead, and scale elastically as demands grow.
“By leveraging Microsoft Azure’s global cloud infrastructure and enterprise-grade compliance service, PingCAP delivers its distributed SQL architecture to address critical database scalability challenges,” said Ross Kennedy, VP, Digital Natives team at Microsoft. “This collaboration empowers enterprises to modernize mission-critical applications with elastic scalability and real-time analytics—while ensuring compliance and operational resilience.”
TiDB Cloud Dedicated Now Available in Public Preview on Azure
TiDB Cloud Dedicated is PingCAP’s fully-managed service for TiDB and is now available across all three major public clouds. The Azure launch (in East US 2, Japan East, and Southeast Asia) adds new flexibility for organizations pursuing multi-cloud strategies or meeting regional data residency requirements.
Azure users can now benefit from:
- Elastic scale-out for compute and storage
- Achieve real-time data insights with milliseconds latency
- Enterprise-grade security, including RBAC and encryption
- Full integration with Azure-native tools and governance frameworks
- Hands-free operations managed by PingCAP
This public preview is open to all TiDB Cloud users. To get started, check out the following resources:
- Launch on TiDB Cloud
- Launch on Azure Marketplace
- TiDB Cloud documentation