Misleading typo in "Describe Azure physical infrastructure" module

Question

Here : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-core-architectural-components-of-azure/5-describe-azure-physical-infrastructure

in the sentce"For example, if a region in a pair was affected by a natural disaster, services would automatically fail over to the other region in its region pair."

I think the phrase "fail over" was supposed to be "fall over".

Regards,

M

Answer 1

Hi, Piller

Thanks for reaching out - 'failover' is the industry terminology, but it should be one word not two.

Answer 2

Hello

I understand the confusion, however the document is correct. Fail over is a widely used term when describing computer systems that have automatic systems which ensure business continuity in times of service failure.

"Failover is switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network in a computer network."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failover

kind regards

Alistair