Announcing Zone Redundancy and Multi-Region Capabilities in Azure Landing Zones

Zone Redundancy: A New Layer of Resilience

Benefits of Zone Redundancy:

• Enhanced High Availability: Applications can be deployed across different zones, safeguarding against single points of failure.
• Improved Fault Tolerance: Independent power, cooling, and networking in each zone means that an incident in one zone won’t affect the others.
• SLA Assurance: Azure provides robust service level agreements that support zone redundancy, reinforcing your uptime commitments.

 

Multi-Region Support: Global Expansion with Local Resilience

 

Advantages of Multi-Region Support:

• Span locations: Serve your customers from multiple regions, optimizing for performance and user experience.
• Disaster Recovery: In the event of a regional disruption, traffic can be redirected to alternate regions with minimal impact.
• Operational Flexibility: Diversify your deployment across regions to meet regulatory compliance and data sovereignty requirements.

 

What are we announcing today? (Phase 1a)

• What is an Azure landing zone?
• Azure Virtual Network Manager in Azure landing zones
• Define an Azure network topology
• Define your tagging strategy
• Resource naming and tagging decision guide
• Traditional Azure networking topology
• Landing zone regions
• Hybrid identity with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID in Azure landing zones
• Management groups
• Subscription considerations and recommendations
• Resource organization design area overview

Next steps and Important information for existing ALZ Bicep and Terraform customers

• Phase 1b by September 2024 - Bicep and Terraform Accelerators to include multi-region support
• Phase 2 by end of calendar year 2024 - ALZ Bicep and Terraform Modules will be zone redundant by default by default by end of calendar year 2024.

Conclusion