Considerations to note while using Azure Availability Zones
Notes from the official documentation - Azure Availability Zones is one of the high-availability features that Azure provides. Using Availability Zones improves the overall availability of SAP workloads on Azure. Consider the following when you use Availability Zones: * This feature is available only in some Azure regions. * There are no guarantees regarding the distances between various Availability Zones within an Azure region. * Availability Zones are not an ideal DR solution. Natural disasters can cause widespread damage in world regions, including heavy damage to power infrastructures. The distances between various zones might not be large enough to constitute a proper DR solution. * The network latency across Availability Zones is not the same in all Azure regions. In these cases, the deployment architecture needs to be different, with an active/active architecture for the application or an active/passive architecture where cross-zone network latency is t...