We have setup data platform in Azure - is there any Disaster Recovery included or do we need to initiate some of the Azure services for this?

Question

Hi,

We have set up a Subscription on the Azure Portal with the following services:

• Data Factory
• VPN
• Private Endpoint
• Storage Account
• SQL server and DB
• Subscription
• Resource Group
• Key Vault

What happens if there is some disaster fall out on the Azure Portal for the Subscription? Will there be a recovery initiated by Azure? Or will we need to set up any Azure services to ensure that we can recover the Subscription and all the parts?

Regards,

Cathrine

Answer 1

Every Azure service is backed by specific Service level agreement that gives you uptime gurantee:

https://azurecharts.com/sla

But it dosn't provide you Disaster recovery capablity, which means in case of any disaster it's not gonna switch to different region:

Data Factory - You can do with DR with CI/CD https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/analytics/pipelines-disaster-recovery

VPN - You need one deployed in paired region

Private Endpoint- Deployed in paired region

Storage Account - Pick GRS

SQL server and DB - Geo Replication On

Subscription - Global

Resource Group - DR resource group needs to be created

Key Vault- Azure Key Vault has regional failover built in automatically https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/general/disaster-recovery-guidance

Feel free to reach out in comments if you want to understand anything specific.