geo-replication

Synchronous replication provides users with redundancy and protection within a single datacenter or multiple datacenters and availability zones in a region, while asynchronous geo-replication offers data availability across all AWS Regions.

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The geo-replication is in addition to the multiple copies maintained by the DFS layer within a single location described above.

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We will have more details in a future blog post on how geo-replication works and how it provides geo-diversity in order to provide disaster recovery if a regional disaster were to occur.

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For example, geo-replication in Windows Azure is designed to know where data is.

SD Times Latest News 2010

We are working on providing a feature called geo-replication, which replicates customer data hundreds of miles between two locations i.e., between North and South US, between North and West Europe, and between East and Southeast Asia to provide disaster recovery in case of regional disasters.

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Storage Durability All data is replicated at least 3 times Replicas are spread out over different fault and upgrade domains in same data center Future support for geo-distribution and geo-replication All of Storage (Blobs, Tables and Queues) is built on this replication layer Dynamic replication to maintain a healthy number of replicas Recover from a lost / unresponsive Drive or Node Data continuously scanned against data bit rot

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Company officials say that since doing so, they have been able to improve developer productivity to accelerate time-to-market, achieve 99.999 percent carrier-grade availability with consistent millisecond response times, handle massive subscriber growth through dynamic scalability and provide redundancy across multiple sites through geo-replication.

VoIP & Gadgets Blog 2009

Tier 3 customers will also get policy-driven geo-location and geo-replication so users can view and access their information through a single namespace.

Latest News from .NET Developer's Journal 2009

Company officials say that since doing so, they have been able to improve developer productivity to accelerate time-to-market, achieve 99.999 percent carrier-grade availability with consistent millisecond response times, handle massive subscriber growth through dynamic scalability and provide redundancy across multiple sites through geo-replication.

VoIP & Gadgets Blog 2009

One important caveat is that Windows Azure doesn't support automated geo-replication in the current production environment (although it is coming): you need to manually deploy your data to different locales if you need it to be geographically dispersed.

MSDN Blogs 2009