Azure will save you from unexpected Godzilla attack part 2: Red Gate will save you from yourself
These real world experiences with Azure are now available in the Pluralsight course "Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service" Yesterday I wrote part 1 of this 2 part series and explained the Godzilla redundant approach of storage in Azure. Each bit of data you put into Azure storage gets replicated multiple times over within the same data centre so that you have redundancy against local failures (i.e. an unexpected Godzilla smash-and-grab). I also explained how it won’t save you from your own stupidity (or my own stupidity in the case I gave) and for that I configured automatic exports of SQL Azure to geo-redundant storage. Now it’s time to tackle...