DataStax Astra Is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to industry’s first open multi-cloud serverless database SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataStax today announced the availability of DataStax Astra, the industry’s first serverless Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for Apache Cassandra™ running in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Enterprises can now access Astra through Microsoft's online store to quickly take advantage of Astra's global scale and zero downtime on the trusted Azure cloud platform. DataStax Astra builds on the Apache Cassandra™ open source database and represents the industry’s first and only open, serverless, multi-cloud, database-as-a-service (DBaaS). With its serverless architecture, Astra is poised to transform the database industry by delivering an unprecedented combination of pay-as-you-go pricing together with the freedom and agility of multi-cloud and open source. The cost optimization and operational benefits of Astra serverless can “bend the curve” of escalating data costs, delivering total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of up to 76% over non-serverless database workloads, according to a recent study by GigaOm.