AZ-900 Episode 7 | Geographies, Regions & Availability Zones | Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Course

Microsoft Azure Fundamental full course.
Episode covers following skills
- Describe Data Centers
- Describe Regions & Region Pairs
- Describe Geographies
- Describe Availability Zones
- Describe the benefits and usage of core Azure architectural components
Study Materials: marczak.io/az-900/#ep07
* Episode Resources
* 📚 Study cheat sheet marczak.io/az-900/episode-07/...
* 🧠 Practice Test marczak.io/az-900/episode-07/...
* Study Guide
* Microsoft Learn: Datacenters and Regions docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lear...
* Microsoft Learn: Geographies docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lear...
* Microsoft Learn: Availability Zones docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lear...
* Microsoft Learn: Region Pairs docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lear...
* Regions & Availability Zones docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
* Expand your knowledge - extra resources
* Microsoft Build: Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich azure.microsoft.com/en-us/res... A very cool video on Azure datacenter architecture by Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich
* Products available by region azure.microsoft.com/en-us/glo...
* 🌐 Azure Speed Test 2.0 azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net/
Agenda
00:00 Episode Introduction
00:17 Session Objectives
00:42 Data Centers
01:17 Regions
06:28 Availability Zones
10:32 Region Pairs
13:30 Geographies
14:10 Session Summary
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[@rinkeemishra]

hello readers and @AdamMarczakYT , I have a question to ask. In the episode 7 practice test,question 4 says a region has one or more data centres. But as per my understanding, a region consist of atleast 1 avaibility zone and if an avaibility zone has only one data centre, then how its gonna achieve fault tolerance in case of a disaster??

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Hi Adam, Could you please add video for *Availability set, Fault and Update Domain* as well. Also, I see Azure is designed to handle events by probability e.g. Local Rack or disk failure can be taken care by LRS. But Datacenter failure can be taken care by AZ and Natural calamities can be handled by Region pairs. :) I hope it help. Please correct me if I am wrong.

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Hi Adam - Good stuff. At the beginning of this presentation, your Key Characteristic slide for Region's has a bullet point stating One but usually more datacenters connected with a low-latency network (< 2ms). Is that accurate? As in

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Hi Adam, your videos are really good, learning a lot. But I have a doubt. As there are region pairs which means contents in region 1 will be replicated in region 2 (region pair) as well, which will help us with availability but it is taking lots of storage as same content is present on both resulting in a huge cost, how that can be avoided?

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[@learnsomething3203]

That was a really great episode, not too long but just enough details to get a good overview of the concepts. Microsoft has added two new kinds of resiliency called Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS) and Read-Access Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (RA-GZRS), can you tell what's more comparing to what you explained in this video?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks. GZRS is just combination of GRS and ZRS, so data is both located in 2 geographies but also across multiple availability zones. RA-GZRS is the same with the ability to read data from the second geo region.

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[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks for stopping by, I have 39 episodes planned plus I want to release few catch up videos on new topics :) I never learned for Azure Fundamentals because I already worked with Azure for a few years before that.

[@sauron101]

Thanks for your great videos, I am watching these one by one. As I understand, Region pairs is included in the Azure service (no extra cost), not the case for availability that I assummed you need to pay for this feature. Am I correct?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Region pair is just like buying another car in another garage. In case one garage burns the other garage is good and car isn't damaged. But you still need to pay for the cars. Same here, if you deploy service in two regions you pay twice.

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{Geographies[Region Pairs(Regions"Availability Zones*Datacenter*")]}

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No availability set discussion in az-900? Just asking because I have used availability sets on Azure while constructing load balancers! And like always really grateful to you, Adam for the course! 😊

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Availability Sets are currently not in scope according to MS skills measured. My guess is that they are a bit more advanced for introduction. They are covered in my VM tutorial video though :) Feel free to check it out!

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@@AdamMarczakYT Oh ok I get. Thanks! 👍

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Excellent! Great job Brandon!

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When a region is fail then how will customer impact due to failure?

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"in clasical scenario without AZ, vm could be deployed to the same data center or even to the same physical server" " what does it mean? in clasical scenario when we choose redundancy but not in AZ? thanks

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Adam which software you are using for creating videos? b/w your explanation is awesome. Thanks a lot !!!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you, it's just PowerPoint and Camtasia to record the screen :)