# How things work - ignition gateway in the azure environment **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [June 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-things-work-ignition-gateway-in-the-azure-environment/61066 "2022-06-22T15:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hewking32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@hewking32](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hewking32)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-things-work-ignition-gateway-in-the-azure-environment/61066/1 "2022-06-22T15:39:37Z")
hi All I might be involved in ignition project with the gateway in the cloud environment (azure). I am trying to figure out what i need to understand about this environment which is obviously different to the local / on site installation. 1 will ignition gateway be capable of connection to the azure mssql server ? as far as i know ignition needs jdbc type of driver for the database connection but azure mssql might need something else? Any thoughts on that? 2 Anything else of critical importance to consider as i don’t know what i don’t know 🙂 Regards and thanks for great help every time ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-things-work-ignition-gateway-in-the-azure-environment/61066/2 "2022-06-22T15:46:44Z")
> [@hewking32](#): > > 2 Anything else of critical importance to consider as i don’t know what i don’t know 🙂 Your PLCs won't be local, so hopefully you aren't planning on making device connections, or if you are then you aren't planning on anything but slow polling rates. ---
**Author:** ![hewking32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@hewking32](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hewking32)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-things-work-ignition-gateway-in-the-azure-environment/61066/3 "2022-06-22T16:02:28Z")
fully agree we cannot expect high polling rates from the plcs in the cloud setup. its initial stages so not sure about connection to devices ---
**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-things-work-ignition-gateway-in-the-azure-environment/61066/4 "2022-06-22T17:10:07Z")
> [@hewking32](#): > > as far as i know ignition needs jdbc type of driver for the database connection but azure mssql might need something else? Looking at the [Microsoft docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/connect-query-java?view=azuresql), you should be able to use the standard JDBC connection.