Azure offers plenty of options for all your database needs. In this chapter, we talked about the various databases that can be used to connect to your application.
The PaaS solutions of Azure SQL, CosmosDB, and Redis are easy and convenient. For other databases, you can use an IaaS solution and install your database on a VM. All the big database types, including relational and NoSQL, are available.
Chapter 12, Securing Your Azure Services, and Chapter 14, Designing for High Availability and Disaster Recovery, will discuss security, high availability, and disaster recovery, which are absolute necessities when you're working with data.