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What are the availability zones in Azure?

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What are the availability zones in Azure?

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- It's a safe bet to think that you're going to get some questions about availability zones in your AZ900 exam. So let's get started with this. As I mentioned before, a region is a set of data centers deployed with an latency defined perimeter and regions themselves are divided into availability zones. A zone, it's a physically separate location within the national region and each one has its own independent power cooling and networking infrastructure. So if one availability zone goes down the other continues working. This is for high availability reasons and replication reasons as well. Take into account that not all Azure regions support availability zones. Okay, here's a practice question for you. You plan to deploy many Azure virtual machines. The virtual machines need to be available if a single data center fails. What are two valid solutions for this? And you're right. Deploy the virtual machines to two…

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