managedInstances
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Enable zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance to achieve high availability and resiliency
Impact: High Category: High Availability PG Verified: Preview
APRL GUID: f8f834a9-c761-4e84-b2cb-ac55494d0c37
Description:
By default, Azure SQL Database premium tier provisions multiple copies within the same region. For geo redundancy, databases can be set as Zone Redundant, distributing copies across Azure Availability Zones to maintain availability during regional outages.
Potential Benefits:
Enhanced availability and reliability
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Use Zone-redundant or Geo-zone-redundant Backup storage redundancy
Impact: High Category: High Availability PG Verified: Preview
APRL GUID: 15e2712c-f3ea-4a8d-9081-11e822b1ccfb
Description:
This copies your backups synchronously across three Azure availability zones in the primary region, if Geo is selected it creates 3 more copies in a secondary region.
Potential Benefits:
Enhanced availability and reliability
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ARG Query:
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Use Redirect connection type to accelerate application access
Impact: Medium Category: Scalability PG Verified: Preview
APRL GUID: c14de326-2729-4be7-a91f-4ea185d24b10
Description:
Redirect mode enables direct connectivity to the instance resulting in improved latency and throughput. Redirect mode applies to the VNet-local endpoint only, while the public endpoint will always default to Proxy connection mode.
Potential Benefits:
Improved latency and throughput
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ARG Query:
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Configure a secondary instance and a Failover group to enable failover to another region
Impact: High Category: Disaster Recovery PG Verified: Preview
APRL GUID: 257cd903-700f-4a79-bd37-7dce2b511df4
Description:
If an outage impacts one or more of the databases in the managed instance, you can manually or automatically failover all the databases inside the instance to a secondary region.
Potential Benefits:
Ensure seamless service with cross-region failover
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ARG Query:
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Monitor your Azure SQL MI Managed Instance in near-real time to detect reliability incidents
Impact: Medium Category: Monitoring and Alerting PG Verified: Preview
APRL GUID: c9afeb1e-e706-4809-be4e-75d9fac708f2
Description:
Monitoring and alerting are an important part of database operations. When working with Azure SQL Database, make use of Azure Monitor and SQL Insights to ensure that you capture relevant database metrics.
Potential Benefits:
Quick incident detection and response
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ARG Query:
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Back Up Your Keys
Impact: Medium Category: Disaster Recovery PG Verified: Preview
APRL GUID: 9fad5392-b852-4807-9b6d-3f700ff9771a
Description:
It is highly recommended to use Azure Key Vault (AKV) to store encryption keys related to Always Encrypted configurations, however it is not required. If you are not using AKV, then ensure that your keys are properly backed up and stored in a secure manner.
Potential Benefits:
Enhanced security and data recovery
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