Suppose I setup 3 VMs (each from an Azure-provided OS image), manually install Sql Server in each, but do not cluster them. My impression is that in this case "autoscale" is not a substitute for SQL HADR as no steps have been taken to keep the databases synchronized. Do you agree? (In fact I'm not if autoscale has any value in a properly setup Sql cluster)
TIA,
edm2