Backing up databases on SQL Server hosted in Windows Azure VM One of the clients at my workplace asked me to find out information on what would be the best possible or recommended approach to run maintenance jobs such as backup job for a SQL Server 2016 hosted in Azure.

Should I be running native SQL backups and dumping the backup files in Azure blob storage, or do I need to ask the client to have a file share as a placeholder for the backup or is a locally attached disk better?
The various options are all well documented here, including a decision matrix to help you decide.