Microsoft Azure Geo-Redundant Block Blob Storage
Microsoft Azure Geo-Redundant Block Blob Storage provides highly available and durable data storage, replicating your data across multiple geographic regions to safeguard against disaster.
- Geo-Redundancy: Data is automatically replicated to a secondary region for disaster recovery.
- Standard IO Performance: Optimized for frequent access and high throughput of block data.
- Scalable Capacity: Easily scale storage capacity up or down as your data needs change.
- Durability: Designed for 99.99999999999999% (16 nines) durability over a year.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Azure subscription provides Geo-Redundant, Standard IO Block Blob storage, a foundational service for storing and accessing large amounts of unstructured data. It ensures your data is not only readily available for standard operations but also protected against regional failures through automatic replication to a secondary geographic location.
Businesses of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprise-level organizations, utilize this service to store critical application data, backups, logs, media files, and more. It integrates directly into Azure environments, serving as a reliable backend for applications and services that require high availability and data durability.
- High Availability: Ensures data access even during regional outages.
- Data Durability: Protects against data loss with redundant storage.
- Scalability: Effortlessly adjusts storage capacity to meet demand.
- Cost-Effective: Pay-as-you-go model for storage consumption.
- Global Reach: Access data from anywhere with Azure's global network.
Azure Geo-Redundant Block Blob Storage offers SMB and mid-market teams enterprise-grade data protection and availability without the complexity of managing physical infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable resilient application data storage
Enable teams to store critical application data with automatic replication across geographic regions. This ensures high availability and protects against data loss during regional outages, maintaining application uptime.
cloud-native applications, microservices architectures, distributed systems, SaaS platforms
Streamline disaster recovery and business continuity
Streamline disaster recovery planning by leveraging automatic geo-redundancy for your critical datasets. This provides a robust failover capability, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
backup and restore strategies, data archiving, regulatory compliance, mission-critical workloads
Automate storage for large unstructured data sets
Automate the storage and management of large volumes of unstructured data, such as media files, logs, and user-generated content. Geo-redundancy ensures this data is protected and accessible globally.
content delivery networks, media asset management, IoT data ingestion, big data analytics
Key Features
Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)
Data is automatically copied to a secondary region, providing high durability and availability in case of a primary region failure.
Standard Performance Tier
Offers cost-effective storage for data that is accessed frequently, providing good performance for block blobs.
Scalable Capacity
Easily scale storage capacity up or down on demand, paying only for what you use without upfront hardware investment.
High Durability (16 nines)
Designed for extreme durability, ensuring your data is protected against loss over extended periods.
Block Blob Storage
Optimized for storing large amounts of unstructured text or binary data, ideal for backups, media files, and logs.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high data durability and availability to meet strict regulatory compliance and ensure continuous operation for critical transactions and record-keeping.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain secure, highly available access to patient records and research data, often subject to regulations like HIPAA that mandate robust data protection and disaster recovery.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on consistent access to operational data, production logs, and supply chain information, making geo-redundancy essential for preventing costly downtime and ensuring business continuity.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data that requires secure storage, high availability, and compliance with data protection regulations, making geo-redundancy a critical safeguard.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between LRS, ZRS, GRS, and RA-GRS?
Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) replicates data within a single data center. Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) replicates data across multiple availability zones within a region. Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) replicates data to a secondary region. Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) allows read access to the secondary region.
How is data billed for Geo-Redundant storage?
You are billed for the total amount of data stored across both the primary and secondary regions, along with any data transfer costs associated with replication or access.
Can I access data in the secondary region if the primary region is unavailable?
With standard Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), manual failover is required to access data in the secondary region. Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) allows read access to the secondary region at any time.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
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