Customers ask for, and NEED, guidance and patterns for deploying into Azure (And SQL).
Patterns and Practices are written down, and created by the AzureCAT team, who help customers do cutting-edge deployments on Azure!
Feel free to use this link, to help understand the different areas where Azure has been deployed, and how you can do so as well!
There are also great articles written down for SQL Server, and SQL on Azure, at SQLCAT:
Thanks!
George Walters 