i have written a blog post on BeyondRelational.com about ‘One of the Interesting things with SQL Azure that happen under the hood’. To read more: click me

Summary: In this article, i discuss an interesting under the hood phenomenon that take place with SQL Azure – it keeps three replica’s of our database to maintain the guaranteed availability (99.9%) which is guranteed by the SLA’s. I encourage you to read more about it: click me