Support for zone-redundant storage in Azure

Previously, MCS only offered locally-redundant storage (LRS). With this feature, you now also have Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) option for storage in Azure. This feature provides you the option to select a storage type depending on the type of redundancy storage that you want to use. ZRS replicates your Azure managed disk across multiple availability zones, which allows you to recover from a failure in one zone by utilizing the redundancy in others.

Current limitations:

• Only supported for managed disks
• Only supported with premium and standard solid-state drives (SSD).
• Only available in certain regions.

For more information, see Redundancy options for managed disks.