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Azure AI Video Indexer failover and disaster recovery

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Warning

The deadline to migratate your media content has passed. See the below for details.

Over the past year, Azure AI Video Indexer (VI) announced the removal of its dependency on Azure Media Services (AMS) due to its retirement. Features adjustments and changes were announced and a migration guide was provided.

The deadline to complete migration was June 30, 2024. VI has extended the update/migrate deadline so you can update your VI account and opt in to the AMS VI asset migration through July 15th, 2024. To use the AMS VI asset migration, you also must extend your AMS account through July. Navigate to your AMS account in the Azure portal and select Click here to extend.

However, after June 30, if you have not updated your VI account, you won't be able to index new videos nor will you be able to play any videos that have not been migrated. If you update your account after June 30, you can resume indexing immediately but you won't be able to play videos indexed before the account update until they are migrated through the AMS VI migration.

Azure AI Video Indexer doesn't provide instant failover of the service if there's a regional datacenter outage or failure. This article explains how to configure your environment for a failover to ensure optimal availability for apps and minimized recovery time if a disaster occurs.

We recommend that you configure business continuity disaster recovery (BCDR) across regional pairs to benefit from Azure's isolation and availability policies. For more information, see Azure paired regions.

Prerequisites

An Azure subscription. If you don't have an Azure subscription yet, sign up for Azure free trial.

Fail over to a secondary account

To implement BCDR, you need to have two Azure AI Video Indexer accounts to handle redundancy.

  1. Create two Azure AI Video Indexer accounts connected to Azure (see Create an Azure AI Video Indexer account). Create one account for your primary region and the other to the paired Azure region.
  2. If there's a failure in your primary region, switch to indexing using the secondary account.

Tip

You can automate BCDR by setting up activity log alerts for service health notifications as per Create activity log alerts on service notifications.

For information about using multiple tenants, see Manage multiple tenants. To implement BCDR, choose one of these two options: Azure AI Video Indexer account per tenant or Azure subscription per tenant.