Module 4 Flashcards
Azure spans the globe with more than how many facilities
100
What is a Region in Azure and what does it contain.
- A region is a geographical area containing one or more data centers that are nearby and networked via low latency network.
- Azure assigns and controls the resources within a region to ensure workloads are appropriately balanced.
True or False, Everything Azure offers is available in every region
False, some things are only available in certain regions (i.e. VM Size or Storage Types)
What types of things do not require a region
- Some Things are global services that do not require region selection (i.e. Azure Ad, Traffic Manager and Azure DNS).
-Azure has more global regions than anyone else, giving the flexibility to get your App closer to your user wherever they are, as well as also providing what…
Better scalability, redundancy and better preserves data residency
Azure has some special regions, what are these and why do they exist
US DOD Central US Govt Virginia US Govt IOWA and More China East China North and More
These exist for compliance and legal reasons
How are the US Govt regions separated and how are they operated
- Physically and logically separated for US govt agencies and operated by screened US personnel
How are the China Regions managed
Managed via Partnership with 21vianet, MS does not directly manage these.
What are regions used to identify
Regions are used to identify the location of your resources
Azure divides the world into geographies, how are these defined
- Azure divides the world into geographies, defined by country borders or geopolitical boundaries
- Azure Geography is a discrete market containing 2 or more regions preserving data residency boundaries.
What do Geographies allow customers to achieve
- Geographies allow customers wit specific data residency and compliance needs to keep apps and data close
- Ensure data residency sovereignty, compliance and resiliency requirements are honoured within boundaries
What level of fault tolerance are built into geographies and how is this achieved
Fault Tolerant to withstand complete region failure through a connection to a dedicated high capacity network infrastructure.
What areas are geographies broken down into
- Americas
- Europe
- Aspac
- Middle East and Africa
In what way do regions belong to geographies and what is applied
Each region belongs to a single geography and has specific service availability, compliance and data residency applied.
You want to make your data and services redundant to protect in case of failure, when using On-Prem this requires hosting duplicate H/W environments.
How does Azure help with this
- Azure can help through availability zones
What are Availability Zones made up of
Availability Zones are physically separate DCs within an Azure region
- Each Availability zone is made up of one of more DCs with independent power/cooling/networking
- If one zone goes down the other continues working.
- Availability Zones are connected via High Speed fibre networks
Does every region support Availability zones
No, not every region support availability zones
How do Availability zones allow running of mission critical apps
- Availability Zones allow running of mission critical apps building High availability bu co-locating compute, storage, data resources within a zone and reduplicating it in other zones
What cost implications can be involved with using Availability zones?
- There could be a cost to duplicating services and transferring data between zones
What types of resource are availability zones typically used for
- Availability Zones are primarily for VMs, managed disks, load balancing and SQL DBs