title: Is "Azure Database for MySQL servers" cloud service based on a Windows or a Linux environment?
body: <p>I have a Windows Server production environment hosted on-site and I would like to have a separate development environment hosted in a cloud service. Amazon Web Services host their RDS MySQL server in a Linux based environment. This differs from the MySQL implementation in the Windows environment with the main issue being <a href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Identifier Case Sensitivity</a>. So I would like to find a cloud service that hosts in a Windows environment so it would be most similar to my production environment. After looking through the Azure documentation for <em>Azure Database for MySQL servers</em>, I could not find an answer. I would like to not spin up an entire Windows Server VM when I could use a more cost effective cloud service.</p>