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mentioned The hot and cool tiers support all redundancy options. The archive tier supports only LRS, GRS, and RA-GRS.
What is the meaning of "GRS and RA-GRS" ? is there a difference between them or there is a typo there?
Hi @ELSONBATY Mahmoud ,
the difference between GRS and RA-GRS is the following:
GRS means the data stored in the Azure Storage Account will be synced to a secondary Azure region but you can't read the data in the secondary region if the primary Azure region is down. It's just the copy of the data without any option to access. You have to initiate a failover to access the Storage Account in the secondary Azure region
RA-GRS means the data stored in the Azure Storage Account will be synced to a secondary Azure region and you are able to read the data in the secondary Azure region if the primary Azure region isn't available.
More details you will find here: Durability and availability by outage scenario
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Andreas Baumgarten
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Hi,
GRS and RA-GRS are different. With RA-GRS, you have read access to data in secondary region whereas with GRS have no access to the secondary except if there is a failover in primary.
Azure Storage redundancy
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy
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