General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.

Geo-redundancy is critical to ensure high availability and to meet various compliance and regulatory requirements for your production workloads (for example, line-of-business (LOB) applications). Geo-redundant storage asynchronously replicates to a secondary region enabling you to failover to the secondary region, if the primary region becomes unavailable.

In regions that are now generally available, the standard file share capacity and performance limits for new and existing geo-redundant shares have significantly increased:

• Capacity per share limit increases from 5 TiB to 100 TiB (20x increase)
• Max IOPS per share limit increases from 1,000 IOPS to the storage account limit (20x increase)
• Max throughput per share increases from 60 MiB/s up to the storage account limit (150x increase)

Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares is now generally available in 30 regions and we will be expanding to all regions in the coming months.

To get started, visit Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares.