Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
Active geo-replication
Active geo-replication is one of the most important business continuity methodologies out there. When using active geo-replication, you can configure up to four secondary databases within the same region or in different regions with reading access. This will help reduce latency for users or applications that need to query the database from a different region.
If a catastrophic disaster occurs, you can fail-over to the other region using a failover group. Failover groups are mainly designed to manage every aspect of geo-replication automatically, such as connectivity, relationships, and failover, provided that it is available for all of the databases in all the service tiers in all the regions.
To implement active geo-replication, ...
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