January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
754 pages
18h 13m
English
Replication to a secondary geographic location is provided with RA-GRS. The customer holds read access to the data, maintained in the secondary location. Access from the primary and the secondary region is possible. RA-GRS is the default option for your storage account on creation.
The following is an overview of the redundancy options in Azure Storage:
|
Replication strategy |
LRS |
ZRS |
GRS |
RA-GRS |
|
Data is replicated across multiple datacenters |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Data can be read from the secondary location as well as from the primary location |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Number of copies of data maintained on separate nodes |
3 |
3 |
6 |
6 |
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