Azure Availability Zones

GPTKB entity

Statements (34)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf cloud computing infrastructure service
gptkbp:availableOn select Azure regions
gptkbp:composedOf at least three separate zones per region
gptkbp:consistsOf physically separate datacenters
gptkbp:designedFor mission-critical applications
gptkbp:documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/availability-zones/az-overview
gptkbp:eachZone is an isolated location within a region
gptkbp:enables 99.99% uptime for VMs
high availability SLAs
resilient architectures
gptkbp:feature independent cooling
independent networking
independent power
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Azure Availability Zones
gptkbp:introducedIn 2017
gptkbp:provides gptkb:Microsoft_Azure
gptkbp:purpose enable disaster recovery
improve fault tolerance
increase application availability
gptkbp:reduces single points of failure
gptkbp:relatedTo AWS Availability Zones
Google Cloud Zones
gptkbp:supports gptkb:Azure_Cosmos_DB
gptkb:Azure_Kubernetes_Service
virtual machines
load balancers
managed disks
SQL Database
App Service Environments
zone-redundant services
gptkbp:usedBy enterprise customers
cloud-native applications
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Azure_Virtual_Machines
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5