Etienne Lopes begins a new series:
“As part of High Availability architecture, each single database, elastic pool database, and managed instance in the Premium and Business Critical service tier is automatically provisioned with a primary read-write replica and one or more secondary read-only replicas.”
Read on to see how you can add support for read-only, scale-out replicas to an existing Azure SQL Database. Just know how much that bill is going to be.