Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for SLA cognizant database connection management for multi-tenant environments. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for SLA cognizant database connection management for multi-tenant environments includes receiving different requests for data in a database from different application instances executing in memory of a host computing system supporting a multi-tenant computing environment and determining a priority for each of the requests. The method also includes selecting for each request a particular portion of a database connection pool of a multiplicity of database connections to the database, in that the particular portion is associated with a corresponding priority of the request, and each portion of the database connection pool includes one or more of the database connections. Finally, the method includes processing each of the requests through a respectively selected one of the portions of the database connection pool.