Azure SQL Managed Instance has been on the market for over 3 years, but there are a couple of things that seems to be less well understood about its capacities.
For legacy applications that are using SSIS or SSRS there is no other PaaS alternative besides SQLMI. Need to use CLR and want to have the managed service advantages - SQLMI is here for the rescue !
Your application need to integrate data between different databases and have some [use] cases - you know where to migrate your application to: to Azure SQL MI !
Join me for a whole hour of known and some hidden gems of the Azure SQL Managed Instance !