Microsoft Azure, is a cloud computing service operated by Microsoft for application management via Microsoft-managed data centres. Microsoft Azure storage offers highly available, scalable, durable, and secure storage for a variety of data objects in the cloud. So, why should your business store data in Microsoft Azure?
The top features of Microsoft Azure data storage include:
Azure Global Infrastructure
The Azure global infrastructure is made up of 200+ data centres split out into regions.
An Azure region is a set of data centres connected with a dedicated low latency network and each data centre has its own power, cooling, and networking facilities. Each Region has a region pair which is another set of data centres located in the same geographic location which can be used for disaster recovery should a region fail.
Locally Redundant Storage
Locally redundant storage (LSR) replicates your data three times within a single data centre, and is the lowest cost option within Microsoft Azure – yet it still provides 99.999999999% durability of objects in a year.
LRS objects protect your data against a drive, server, or rack failure within a single data centre but it does not protect you from fire, flooding or some other event that could cause an entire data centre outage.
Zone Redundant Storage
Zone redundant storage replicates data across three Azure availability zones within one region. Each availability zone is a separate available datacentre within one region, each datacentre has its own separate independent power, cooling, and networking facilities. ZRS storage offers an increased durability of 99.9999999999% uptime over a year.
Geo Redundant Storage
Geo redundant storage is the highest cost option but replicates the data into a region pair which is a set of data centres located hundreds of miles away from the original data, this means that your data is available even in the case of a regional failure.
GRS Storage offers two options to store your data:
– GRS: Copies the data synchronously three times within the primary regions single data centre, then copies the data asynchronously to a single physical data centre in the secondary region.
– GZRS
Copies the data synchronously three times within the primary region’s availability zones, then copies the data asynchronously to another region where it is then copied synchronously three times. GZRS has a durability of at least 99.99999999999999% uptime in a year.
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