Azure SQL Managed Instance Zone Redundancy to begin billing

Azure SQL Managed Instance with Zone Redundancy to begin billing in Italy-North, Israel-Central, and West-Europe

Microsoft Azure continues to enhance its services, ensuring that customers have access to the latest innovations and features. The latest update is particularly exciting for SQL MI deployments in Italy-North, Israel-Central, and Europe-West: Azure SQL Managed Instance with Zone Redundancy is available in these regions and starts billing for all configurations.

Understanding Zone Redundancy

Zone Redundancy is a feature designed to improve the availability and resilience of your database instances. In the context of Azure SQL Managed Instance, Zone Redundancy means that your instances are replicated across multiple availability zones within a region. Each availability zone is a physically separate location with independent power, cooling, and networking. This separation ensures that even in the event of a data center outage, your database remains available and operational.

Benefits of Zone Redundancy

1. Increased Resilience

By replicating your data across multiple zones, you safeguard your applications from data center failures. This redundancy minimizes the risk of downtime and ensures that your critical business applications remain online, providing a more reliable service to your users.

2. Improved Business Continuity

With Zone Redundancy, you can achieve higher availability. For many businesses, this means meeting stringent uptime requirements and maintaining customer trust by ensuring their services are always available.

3. Cost Efficiency

While Zone Redundancy does come with additional costs, the benefits of reduced downtime and the potential financial impact of data loss often outweigh these expenses. In essence, investing in Zone Redundancy can save your business money in the long run by avoiding costly downtime and data recovery efforts.

How to Enable Zone Redundancy

Enabling Zone Redundancy for your Azure SQL Managed Instance is straightforward:

1. During Instance Creation:
   • When creating a new managed instance, you can specify Zone Redundancy in the configuration options.
2. For Existing Instances:
   • If you have an existing instance, you can modify its settings to enable Zone Redundancy in configure blade