How do DTUs in Standard and Premium performance tiers in SQL Azure compare?
I was similarly confused when looking at the pricing for those two tiers. 100 DTUs on standard costs $150/mo and 125 DTUs on Premium costs $465/mo, I figured something else must explain that disparity. I think this line from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-service-tiers-dtu#choosing-a-service-tier-in-the-dtu-based-purchasing-model must explain the difference:

                            | Standard                   | Premium
IO throughput (approximate) | 2.5 IOPS per DTU           | 48 IOPS per DTU
IO latency (approximate)    | 5 ms (read), 10 ms (write) | 2 ms (read/write)


So it looks like a Premium DTU is actually worth 19x more than a Standard DTU