CE: Estimate the vCores needed for the pool as follows: For vCore-based purchasing model: MAX(<Total number of DBs X average vCore utilization per DB>, <Number of concurrently peaking DBs X Peak vCore utilization per DB) A: Estimate the storage space needed for the pool by adding the number of bytes needed for all the databases in the pool. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/elastic-pool-overview