Azure SQL database is a platform as a service SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud and managed by Azure. Azure automates many management activities and enables you to focus on development and optimizations. In addition, it enables you to easily configure some advanced management configurations. There are some critical database management activities that... Read more

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverstorageengine/2018/04/26/how-azure-sql-database-makes-database-management-easier/