From the course: Microsoft Azure: Backup and Disaster Recovery

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Considerations

Considerations - Azure Tutorial

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Considerations

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- [Presenter] Before jumping into the course I would like to spend a few minutes on Azure Recovery Solution Considerations. Basically, what you need to aware of when using Azure for your recovery solutions and some of the limitations of the more popular Azure infrastructure services. The first item I want to focus in on is the SLA, or service level agreement, for Azure virtual machines. Microsoft clearly states that for all internet-facing virtual machines that have two or more instances deployed in the same availability set, we guarantee you will have an external connectivity at least 99.95% of the time. So what does this mean? Well, it means that a single virtual machine will not be protected by default in Azure if you have not configured an availability set with two or more virtual machines. This also means there'll be an increased cost as you now have to have two virtual machines running. Also, if you have your virtual machines in an availability set you will not be notified of…

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