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Is it normal to have so many restarts? Yes this can happen in a given month, you need to stand up SQL Server in high availability mode to really get this to work. Yes it does cost an arm and leg. ;( What is your experience with such an environment on Azure? Some months are really good some months are bad, depends on your cluster and which datacenter you are in. MS have mixed range our hardware out in there datacenters. That does not mean they are running on old laptops in some datacenters but it does mean in my experience the new datacenters tend to have better kit in them and thus less restarts. I.e we use USA East. What can I do to minimise this downtime? High availability with a witness is the only way to give you availability in VM and yes it cost and arm and leg. Other serious options. Cache Cache ..You should use computer cache, azure cache and try to minmize your calls to the database. This might reduce your chatty app and allow you to step back in SQL Azure, but might give you enough to for the failover to recover back. Queues Queues would help you application recover and give you user a message of we are working on it. Use SQL Azure as failover. Data sync using SQL Azure Sync from Premise (Not sure this works with Express) to SQL Azure and write into you app code to pick up the connection error and failover. Look at using other parts of Azure for parts of your app to reduce your amount of calls coming into SQL , i.e Can you move stuff to table storage ? HTHS give you some ideas. 
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1. COAlthough this confirms my theories, it sucks. VMs on other providers are much more stable. However, I agree that Caching and switching back to SQL Azure seems the only way! Thanks!
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