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Evaluate Azure-specific HA or DR solutions

Evaluate Azure-specific HA or DR solutions

- Welcome back, this is Lesson 13.3, Evaluate Azure-specific high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions. In the last video, we talked about high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions for hybrid deployments. So, for this video, we'll focus on high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions that are specific to Azure, meaning, those solutions that are configured within Azure themselves, and will focus primarily on Azure SQL database. We'll start with talking about availability through redundancy, specifically, local redundancy and zone redundancy. Azure SQL database achieves availability through local redundancy, making sure your database handles disruptions, such as issues with the rack your database is hosted on or server maintenance operations. To address these types of issues, your database is stored on local redundant storage and copied three times within a single data center in the primary region. However, you can achieve high availability by enabling zone…

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