[Ecio78]

Totally agree with you. Even if you have delayed copies, you still need proper backup in place. They recently implemented long term retention for Azure SQL backups in Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-sql-database-no... as it was only allowing 'til 35 days. I would expect that something similar is provided also for this type of DBs

[martinknafve]

One can hope. Blob and table storage still have no form of backup ~8 years after introduction.

When I've asked they have been referring to replication and to call them if we accidentally lose data. But we need to contact them within two hours otherwise it's too late. And of course Azure Support never responds that quickly when I submit a case to them.