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: 
I did a quick google and found [this link](http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-PL/windowsazurewebsitespreview/thread/0218204f-7be3-4586-bfdb-831cde6b7937). It has some useful information.

Thanks to @twomm here is a TLDR of the situation:

`just to keep everybody from clicking through, this is the current state there: "We are shooting for April or May for this feature"`
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.