Who this will help? This will help anyone who falls into the two cases below.
Create an Azure Functions app that has a custom domain, and an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. If you just need SSL you can use the Microsoft URLs for the site.
Create a cheap Static Website with a custom domain and an SSL certificate. Azure Functions can use a consumption model plan to run.
Background Managed or “Smart” backup is a new offering for SQL Server starting in 2014 where you setup a storage device in Azure, setup credentials to that storage device, and then turn it on for the entire server. From that point forward any new database created on the the server, with Full recovery, will do the full and incremental backups, based on the database needs, automatically to your Azure storage.
