By using PaaS services in the cloud, you are shifting responsibilities a little bit:
- You are no longer the maintainer of the infrastructure
- You are no longer responsible for different updates when software is considered
- By signing SLA with you, your provider is responsible for making sure that a service is up and running
Instead, you should focus on the following points:
- Properly configuring a service, so it meets your performance targets and legal requirements
- Integrating different services and applications, so they reflect the best practices when it comes to communicating with a service
- Implementing HA/DR scenarios, so an outage or disaster in one region does not impact your systems
By using Microsoft SQL ...
