C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

Storage redundancy

It's worth remembering at all times that the cloud is just another way of saying someone else's computer; in our case, that could be read as Microsoft's computers. Obviously, storing your data in Azure is more secure than storing it on the computer of your next-door neighbor, but many of the concepts are the same; this includes the fact that your neighbor may have a break-in, a flood, or a fire.

Microsoft faces the same risks, which they attempt to mitigate against with more security, fire safety, and waterproofing than your neighbor probably has. However, it is still possible that the machine that has your data goes up in smoke.

Different vendors have slightly different versions of this concept, but they all essentially ...