Box 1: SQL Managed Instance
Scenario: Once migrated to Azure, DB1 and DB2 must meet the following requirements:
The auto-failover groups feature allows you to manage the replication and failover of a group of databases on a server or all databases in a managed instance to another region. It is a declarative abstraction on top of the existing active geo-replication feature, designed to simplify deployment and management of geo-replicated databases at scale. You can initiate a geo-failover manually or you can delegate it to the Azure service based on a user-defined policy. The latter option allows you to automatically recover multiple related databases in a secondary region after a catastrophic failure or other unplanned event that results in full or partial loss of the SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance availability in the primary region.
Box 2: Business critical
SQL Managed Instance is available in two service tiers:
General purpose: Designed for applications with typical performance and I/O latency requirements.
Business critical: Designed for applications with low I/O latency requirements and minimal impact of underlying maintenance operations on the workload.
[Reference:, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/auto-failover-group-overview, , https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/managed-instance/sql-managed-instance-paas-overview, , ]
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