A business continuity plan requires storage data to be replicated across regions. Which Azure storage option provides this capability?
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Correct answer: Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS).
Why this is the answer
RA-GRS (Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage) is the correct option because it replicates your data to a secondary region hundreds of miles away from the primary region, providing durability even in the event of a regional outage. This cross-regional replication is essential for business continuity plans, as it ensures data availability and disaster recovery. Additionally, RA-GRS allows read access to the data in the secondary region, which can be beneficial during an outage. LRS (Locally Redundant Storage) only replicates data within a single data center, offering no protection against a regional disaster. ZRS (Zone-Redundant Storage) replicates data across multiple availability zones within a single region, protecting against data center failures but not a full regional outage. Premium SSD is a disk type for virtual machines, not a storage redundancy option for general data.
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