Your company has datacenters in Los Angeles and New York and is configuring them as geo-clustered sites for resiliency. You must recommend an Azure storage redundancy option given these requirements: data stored on multiple nodes; nodes in separate geographic locations; data must be readable from the secondary location as well as the primary. Which Azure storage redundancy option should you recommend?
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Correct answer: Read-only geo-redundant storage.
Why this is the answer
Read-only geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) is the correct option because it meets all specified requirements. RA-GRS replicates your data to a secondary region hundreds of miles away, providing geo-clustering and high resiliency. It also allows read access to the data in the secondary location, fulfilling the requirement for readability from both primary and secondary sites. Geo-redundant storage (GRS) replicates data to a secondary region but does not allow direct read access from the secondary endpoint unless a failover occurs. Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) replicates data across multiple Azure Availability Zones within a single region, not separate geographic locations. Locally redundant storage (LRS) replicates data within a single datacenter, offering the least redundancy and not meeting the geo-clustering requirement.
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