November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
15h 7m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Azure for Developers
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Replication
When using a cloud, you have to expect that any service can be down at anytime. Although Azure Storage is considered one of the most durable services (because many services in Azure rely on it), it is possible that it will face an outage. To mitigate problems related to such failures, it offers four different kinds of replication:
- Locally-redundant storage (LRS): Three copies of your data within the same data center
- Zone-redundant storage (ZRS): Three copies of your data within the same region
- Geo-redundant storage (GRS): Three copies of your data within the same data center plus three copies in another region
- Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS): Three copies of your data within the same data center plus three copies in ...