Kumar Prateek

  Disaster Recovery of Azure Blob Storage In this post we will try to understand various approaches available to restore Azure Blob storage in case of any disaster reported in the region where the service was hosted.     First, we need to understand the importance of having a disaster recovery approach. It is important as there are chances of unfortunate situation either technical or natural which can happen in the environment where our services are hosted. And based on how important the service is for our end-users, we can have one or the other approach or a combination of approaches.   These are the approaches we are going to discuss broadly. ·        Bring-up new blob using ARM templates ·        Enable Geo-replication on the storage account ·        Create snapshots of the blobs   Now, let's talk about them individually one at a time.

Disaster Recovery of Azure API Management (APIM)     In this post, we will try to understand how we can apply a disaster recovery approach for Azure API Management aka. APIM. So, first of all, we will have to understand the importance of it. It's very important for an application using APIM to have a strong disaster recovery approach, as in case of any issue because of disaster reported, the system using the APIs underneath should be accessible for the users/ systems, and since the APIM is used as the fore front of the applications (mostly)  it's  important to restore the APIM service ASAP in case of any disaster reported, so that the application consuming the APIs underneath it  is  not having issue connecting to the APIs.       There are 2 broader options which one can think of:   Have a stand-by service in one or more regions   Service back-up and restore features    Let's  talk about both the approaches (one at a ...