SQL Azure now supports individual DB sizes of up to 150GB, and with sharding you can partion a database even futher. For more details please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff602419.aspx

We have several improvements around encryption, including data at rest and during use. Today I don’t have a timeframe that I can share.

We support SSL/HTTPS today, with one limitation, which is that we support this only when one uses the CDN domain name (az18283.vo.msecnd.net), we do not support SSL when one uses a CNAME, and although that support is on the list of things to prioritize, it is not in the top half of that list.

There are at least three ways to enable e-mail for your Azure applications:

1.Using a custom on-premise Email Forwarder Service.

2. Using Email Server’s Web Services APIs

3.Using a third party SMTP Service

All are described in more depth here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

Please help us understand what scenarios (if any) these patterns don’t address for your applications.