Elastic scale for Microsoft Azure SQL DB makes it easier to build and manage a sharded data tier for cloud applications that can grow and shrink database capacity on demand. This session explores workloads that are a good fit for sharding and Azure SQL DB Elastic Scale. We introduce you to the sharded tenancy models for the different workloads and explain how Elastic Scale simplifies shard management, data dependent routing, querying across shards, managing many shards, and elastic capacity management.