[jiggawatts]

Which sounds great, except that Azure SQL -- like many cloud services -- was carefully designed to be a tarpit into which you can import your data, but can't get your data back out.

For example, for at least a few years its "external" backups were simply the bacpac export function, which wasn't transactionally consistent and had all sorts of fun limits.

[AtNightWeCode]

Yeah, still some fun limits in Azure SQL. Like you can't take the databases offline or pause the service.

[jiggawatts]

Nobody ever voluntarily adds a stop valve to the firehose of cash.