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Enable global disaster recovery using Azure Site Recovery
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This article describes how to replicate, failover, and failback Azure virtual machines from one Availability Zone to another, within the same or a different Azure region.
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Azure Site Recovery does not move or store data out of the source and target region chosen by you. You may select a Recovery Services Vault from a different (third) region. The Recovery Services Vault contains metadata but no actual customer data.
Azure Site Recovery service contributes to your business continuity and disaster recovery strategy by keeping your business apps up and running, during planned and unplanned outages. We recommend Disaster Recovery option to keep your applications up and running if there are regional outages.
Disaster recovery for global Azure regions
Azure was the first large public cloud provider to launch a first-class cloud native disaster recovery solution with Azure-to-Azure Disaster Recovery. This offering was allowing you to replicate and fail over your applications from one Azure region to another, in the same continent. also supporting zone-to-zone Disaster Recovery.
Azure Site Recovery now supports global disaster recovery. You can now replicate and fail over your applications from any Azure region, across continents.
Many of you run global businesses and would like to host and replicate your applications across the world by leveraging Azure’s global presence. This is where you can leverage global disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery. This new offering removes the continental boundaries of Azure to Azure Disaster Recovery. Supported by our powerful global networking backbone, you can replicate and fail over your applications to any Azure region of your choice, around the globe.
This offering completes the native-public cloud disaster recovery portfolio of zone-to-zone disaster recovery, within-continent disaster recovery, and global disaster recovery.
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Choosing a disaster recovery (DR) region on a distant continent does have a minor impact on recovery point objective (RPO) but is not significant enough to impact any of the Azure Site Recovery’s SLAs.
This offering completes the native-public cloud disaster recovery portfolio of zone-to-zone disaster recovery, within-continent disaster recovery, and global disaster recovery.
With zone to zone disaster recovery, you can bring the power of Availability zones to augment your Disaster Recovery story. Siddharth Deekshit joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can now protect your Azure VMs by replicating them from one availability zone to another within the same region.[0:00:00]– Overview[0:03:28]– Presentation[0:06:34]– Demo[0:13:39]– Discussion and wrap-upEnable Azure VM disaster recovery between availability zonesProtect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site RecoveryA