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Gurdev Singh
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May 17, 2022
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Azure storage data centre and M365 data

We are using a backup product to backup a component of our data held in M365. Backups are stored in Azure. Location of Azure storage account is same as our M365 tenant. My question is whether it is p...
  • lukemurraynz's avatar
    May 17, 2022
    Yes, it's possible.

    Keep in mind a lot of Azure regions have 3 datacenters (Availability Groups), and if your backups are ZRS there is a copy in each datacenter.

    It's a good callout to make, having your Storage Account georedundant will help your resiliency by copying the data to a datacenter in another region.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/o365-data-locations?view=o365-worldwide
    https://msit.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYzEyZTc5OTgtNTdlZS00ZTVkLWExN2ItOTM0OWU4NjljOGVjIiwidCI6IjcyZjk4OGJmLTg2ZjEtNDFhZi05MWFiLTJkN2NkMDExZGI0NyIsImMiOjV9