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Brass Contributor

Dec 21, 2020

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Availability zone

Some says single AZ has multiple DC and some says not true every time. I need to deploy 3 VM running one application and want to make sure 2 at least run if one MS datacenter have issue. Will si...

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ChrisBradshaw
Dec 22, 2020
Ashka123Yes, to have VMs in separate Azure datacentres within a region you need to use Availability Zones:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones

An Availability Zone has "one or more" datacentres- so in some cases you might by chance end up spread across different physical buildings within that Zone, but to guarantee different datacentres you need to use the Availability Zones.

ChrisBradshaw

Iron Contributor

Dec 22, 2020

Ashka123Yes, to have VMs in separate Azure datacentres within a region you need to use Availability Zones:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones

An Availability Zone has "one or more" datacentres- so in some cases you might by chance end up spread across different physical buildings within that Zone, but to guarantee different datacentres you need to use the Availability Zones.