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Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Geo-replication feature for Azure Event Hubs, now available in both Premium and Dedicated tiers. This milestone marks a significant enhancement in our service, providing our customers with robust business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities – ensuring high availability for their mission-critical applications. 

The Geo-replication feature allows you to replicate your Event Hubs data across multiple regions either synchronously or asynchronously, ensuring that your data remains accessible in the event of maintenance activities, regional degradation, or a regional outage. With Geo-replication, you can seamlessly promote a secondary region to a primary, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity. 

Before failover (promotion of secondary to primary)	After failover (promotion of secondary to primary)

With general availability, we are excited to announce that the Geo-replication feature now supports all the features that are generally available in the service today. This includes private networking, customer-managed key encryption, Event Hubs Capture, and many more. These enhancements ensure that you can leverage the full capabilities of Event Hubs while benefiting from the added reliability of Geo-replication.

We have also increased visibility into the health and metrics of your replicas. This means you can now monitor the status of your replicas more effectively and know exactly when it is appropriate to promote your secondary to primary. This added visibility ensures that you can make informed decisions and maintain the high availability of your applications.

Since the announcement of public preview, we’ve had several customers try out the Geo-replication feature and appreciate the enhanced reliability and peace of mind that comes with having a robust disaster recovery solution in place.

Learn more

Learn more about geo-replication concepts and the pricing model and try out this quickstart to learn how to setup geo-replication for your premium and dedicated tier namespaces. 

We encourage our customers to try out the Geo-replication feature and experience the benefits of turnkey business continuity and disaster recovery features firsthand.

Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we look forward to hearing about your experiences.