Azure Availability Zones and Zone-Redundant Storage hits GA

Very exciting news come this week! Microsoft announces the General Availability for Azure Availability Zones and Zone Redundant Storage. This is really good, because now you can to run highly-available, mission-critical workloads on top of zone-redundant VM/Scale Sets, Load Balancers, and Storage. Several additional regions and services such as Azure SQL and Redis Cache are also available to customers in preview or in the works. For now, only Central-US and France Central.

On the other hand, Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) is Generally Available in US East 2, US East EUAP (Canary), US Central, North Europe, West Europe, France Central, and Southeast Asia. Zone-Redundant Custom Images and Snapshots for Managed Disks are also GA at this time in these regions.

Cheers,

Marcos Nogueira
Azure MVP
azurecentric.com
Twitter: @mdnoga

About Marcos Nogueira

With more than 25 years of experience in Infrastructure & Application Architecture, Marcos Nogueira is currently a Principal Cloud Solution Architect. He is an expert in Public and Hybrid Cloud, focusing on Security, Cloud Migration, Cloud Innovation and Cloud Automation. His experience includes Microsoft technologies such as Azure IaaS & PaaS, AKS, Defender & Sentinel and Cloud Adoption Framework; Marcos is always looking to improve ways to automate. Marcos is an MVP in Azure, and he has +20 years of Microsoft Certified, with over 175+ certifications. He also enjoys motor racing, photography and travelling in his free time.

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