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Brett Hargreaves
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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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Understanding Azure storage resiliency options

Azure storage accounts have several options when creating them to define how the data within them is protected and made available in the event of hardware or even regional failure.

We looked in detail at storage accounts in Chapter 9, Exploring Storage Solutions, where we looked at different replication options such as locally redundant storage (LRS) and geo-redundant storage (GRS).

To recap, data in Azure is always replicated to ensure durability and high availability. Storage replication can be set during the creation of a storage account; however, you can change the type of replication later by using the Azure portal, PowerShell, or the CLI.

In the event of an outage of the region that contains your storage account, failover is not automatic. You must manually switch your secondary replica to be the primary. Note that because data is copied from one region to another asynchronously, that is, the data is copied to the secondary...

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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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