Azure-docs: Not all regions support failover?

[quantumtunneling]

We have GRS storage accounts in North Central US as the primary, but the Geo-replication blade says:

"Customer controlled failover is not supported for your primary and secondary region"

Is there a list somewhere of which regions support this feature and which do not?

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• ID: 44ba1fba-bdd0-ab8e-ee99-d5a9ad922471
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• Content: Initiate a storage account failover (preview) - Azure Storage
• Content Source: articles/storage/common/storage-initiate-account-failover.md
• Service: storage
• Sub-service: common
• GitHub Login: @tamram
• Microsoft Alias: tamram

[tamram]

@quantumtunneling - Please see the article provided below. The account failover preview is only supported in these two regions:

US West 2
US West Central

We expect to support more regions later this year.

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/common/storage-disaster-recovery-guidance#about-the-preview

@artemuwka - FYI

please-close

[quantumtunneling]

Thanks for such a quick response, much appreciated!

[quantumtunneling]

Do you happen to know which regions will get support for this later this year?

[artemuwka]

@quantumtunneling hi Graham! In the immediate future we're adding US Central/ US East 2, Asia Southeast/ Asia East & Australia East/ Australia Southeast pairs. Are there regions you are particularly interested in?

[quantumtunneling]

We're located in North Central US, is this on the road map at all?

[artemuwka]

It is for sure! US South Central and US North Central are currently planned to light up in mid-end of Q3 2019.

[quantumtunneling]

Thanks Art! I really appreciate the quick responses from you guys!

[chayanbaner]

Hi, artemuwka any inputs on when North/West Europe regions will be supported?

[harendra-prasad1]

Azure Storage account failover is now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/updates/azure-storage-account-failover-ga/

[suineglive13]

@tamram @artemuwka Dear Tamra & Artem, though the account failover is GA now, we're still keep getting
"Customer controlled failover is not supported for your primary and secondary region" and greyed out button.
We tried different regions and westus2/westcentralus as well. What can be wrong?

[tamram]

@suineglive13 - Failover is enabled in all regions, but it's currently unavailable due to a service issue. I expect it will be available again within a few weeks. I'll update this issue when it's available again.

From the storage engineering team:

Customer-initiated account failover feature is currently unavailable due to a service issue that impacts access to the storage account after failover. We are working with priority to address the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

[flyingUnderTheRadar]

@tamram @artemuwka - This has been unavailable for some time. Is there a timeline around this?

What is the scope of the issue. I understand customer initiated fail over isn't supported yet.

However if the primary fails will Microsoft cut over to the secondary and notify us in some way? We would like to understand this since we are in the process of building out a new service and this info will be really helpful.

[tamram]

If the primary fails, Microsoft will handle the failover, as described here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/common/storage-disaster-recovery-guidance#microsoft-managed-failover