Looking for Disaster Recovery Solution for Azure BLOB Storage

Vinayak Byahatti 0 Reputation points
2024-10-25T13:19:53.5966667+00:00

We are working on Disaster Recovery Solution of an Enterprise PLM application hosted on Azure Cloud West Europe Region. RPO: Up to 1 Hour

We are looking for Disaster Recovery Solution for Azure BLOB storage. Currently BLOB storage is created in West Europe region and it has around 8-10TB of data. And we need perform planned (routine DR drills) and Unplanned failover of that BLOB storage in different Azure Region. We are looking for best viable solution for BLOB storage recovery in another Azure Region which requires less Administrative efforts/overhead.

Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
An Azure service that stores unstructured data in the cloud as blobs.
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  1. Hari Babu Vattepally 3,190 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2024-10-25T18:27:06.2766667+00:00

    Hi @Vinayak Byahatti

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum. Thanks for posting your query here!

    For implementing a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution for Azure Blob Storage with an RPO of up to 1 hour, you can consider using Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) or Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS). These options automatically replicate your data to a secondary region, ensuring that your data is available in case of a regional outage.

    1. Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS): This option replicates your data to a secondary region, providing a high level of durability. In the event of a regional failure, you can initiate a failover to the secondary region.
    2. Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS): This is similar to GRS but allows you to read from the secondary region even while the primary region is still operational. This can be beneficial for applications that require continuous access to data.

    For planned failovers, you can perform routine DR drills by using the Azure portal or Azure CLI to initiate a failover to the secondary region. It's important to ensure that your application is designed to handle failover scenarios and that you regularly test your DR plan.

    Additionally, consider the following best practices:

    • Regularly test your DR plan to ensure that it meets your RPO and RTO requirements.
    • Monitor the replication status of your Blob Storage to ensure data consistency.
    • Implement automation where possible to reduce administrative overhead during failover processes.

    By leveraging these strategies, you can create a robust DR solution for your Azure Blob Storage that meets your RPO requirements with reduced administrative efforts.

    For more details, please refer the documents.

    Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.


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