We design our Azure solutions to guarantee stable performance, security, and protection from any events. Microsoft provides several layers of protection with both logic and hardware measures, so we can design an infrastructure with enough redundancy to withstand almost everything, up to the alien invasion.
Depending on your needs, we can utilize either out-of-the-box opportunities provided by Azure, that are enough for almost all projects, or build a more sophisticated architecture achieving 99,99 and more uptime. Azure Availability Set is one example used to create numerous virtual machines sets (VM) to guarantee around 22 minutes of downtime per month or less. Availability Zones provide even more redundancy spreading the workload between several physical facilities with independent power supply, technical maintenance, cooling, and so on. This means that even if a data center is physically destroyed (by fire, for example), your applications keep working like nothing happened.
Leveraging Azure Site Recovery and backup vaults, the UKAD team provides tools to move things back, if anything really harsh happens, and get back to normal work as fast as possible.
If you're looking for more details about our approach to disaster recovery and high availability, book a meeting with our Azure guru!