You plan to deploy several Azure virtual machines and need to ensure the services on them remain available if a single data center fails. Solution: Deploy the virtual machines to two or more availability zones. Does this meet the goal?

Deploying virtual machines across two or more Availability Zones within an Azure region is an effective strategy to ensure high availability and disaster recovery from data center failures. Each Availability Zone is a physically separate location within an Azure region, with independent power, cooling, and networking. If one data center (Availability Zone) experiences an outage, the virtual machines in the other Availability Zones remain operational, thus maintaining service availability. This approach protects against single data center failures, which is the core requirement of the goal.