Question: I have been using the new Windows Azure Websites preview to build a site for a customer. I recently deployed this site, and moved it to a reserved instance so that I could configure a custom domain for the site as required by the customer. So far so good.

My next step is to secure the site using an SSL certificate. I have searched long and hard on the azure website (as well as stackoverflow) but have not been able to locate any information on how to configure an SSL cert for a reserved website instance. 

I have seen many examples of doing this with a web role (cloud service) but not for a reserved website. 

Does anyone know if this is currently possible? Or is this perhaps one of the reasons why azure websites are still in a preview mode?

**Update:** Found a post on the Azure Forum indicating that this is not possible in the current release, but is coming soon in a future release. <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazurewebsitespreview/thread/4bf975e7-56c0-4a4d-bb6a-b9b82f0da469>

Answer: 
As of 3, June 2013 Azure Web Sites now supports SSL for `custom domains` for `reserved` web sites according to [Azure Pricing Details Page](http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/web-sites/).

Two type of SSL connections are supported.

1 - `Server Name Indication` (SNI) SSL connections which works on modern browsers.

2 - `IP-based SSL` which works on all browsers.
Currently Azure supports shared SSL certificate only. Custom SSL certificates aren't supported yet, however Microsoft is planning to introduce them very soon.

With shared security you can access the same `https` site with `https`.