Azure SQL Managed Instance Zone Redundancy to begin billing

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Azure SQL Managed Instance with Zone Redundancy to begin billing in Italy-North, Israel-Central, and West-Europe


Microsoft Azure continues to enhance its services, ensuring that customers have access to the latest innovations and features. The latest update is particularly exciting for businesses operating in Italy, Israel, and West Europe: Azure SQL Managed Instance with Zone Redundancy is available in these regions and starts billing for all configurations.


 


What is Azure SQL Managed Instance?


Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed database service that offers the best of SQL Server with the operational and financial benefits of an intelligent, fully managed service. It provides a near-100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server (Enterprise Edition) database engine, which makes it easy to migrate your SQL Server databases to Azure without changing your apps.


 


Understanding Zone Redundancy


Zone Redundancy is a feature designed to improve the availability and resilience of your database instances. In the context of Azure SQL Managed Instance, Zone Redundancy means that your instances are replicated across multiple availability zones within a region. Each availability zone is a physically separate location with independent power, cooling, and networking. This separation ensures that even in the event of a data center outage, your database remains available and operational.


 


Benefits of Zone Redundancy


1. Increased Resilience


By replicating your data across multiple zones, you safeguard your applications from data center failures. This redundancy minimizes the risk of downtime and ensures that your critical business applications remain online, providing a more reliable service to your users.


2. Improved Business Continuity


With Zone Redundancy, you can achieve higher availability SLAs. For many businesses, this means meeting stringent uptime requirements and maintaining customer trust by ensuring their services are always available.


3. Cost Efficiency


While Zone Redundancy does come with additional costs, the benefits of reduced downtime and the potential financial impact of data loss often outweigh these expenses. In essence, investing in Zone Redundancy can save your business money in the long run by avoiding costly downtime and data recovery efforts.


 


How to Enable Zone Redundancy


Enabling Zone Redundancy for your Azure SQL Managed Instance is straightforward:



  1. During Instance Creation:

    • When creating a new managed instance, you can specify Zone Redundancy in the configuration options.



  2. For Existing Instances:

    • If you have an existing instance, you can modify its settings to enable Zone Redundancy in configure blade



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