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Multi region architecture with active active mode azure


I have some doubts about implementing a multi-region architecture in azure, I am running my application currently in one region and I am saving some data in blob storage and others in the PostgreSQL database. I wanted to replicate my whole architecture in different regions to be near to other customers. So I will be using Traffic manager to route the traffic based on the source region, but when doing my research about the replica for databases and data storage I find that the replica is in read-only mode. So if want to have active/ active region architecture what should I do exactly?


Solution

  • Building a true active-active architecture with any relational database is tricky, since as you pointed out, all the replicas are read-only. There are a couple of avenues you can pursue:

    You can explore general guidance about Mission-Critical workloads on Azure here. And there is a fully fledged reference implementation for active-active using Cosmos DB: https://github.com/Azure/Mission-Critical-Online