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How do I set up an A record for an Azure website or web role?

We want to host a website on Windows Azure, and it can technically be a website or a web role, we are not particularly interested. Is there a way to set an A record for any of them?

It seems that shared websites do not support DNS records at all, and that reserved instances only support CNAME. Does web roles support type A DNS records?

If not, how do Azure real-world deployments handle this? It is absolutely imperative for our website to serve both www.example.com, and example.com.

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