Managing Service Bus outages and disasters

One of the items that is overlooked when using cloud services in general is disaster recovery. Many IT professionals overlook the fact that most services are not geo replicated by default to other data centers unless you specifically configure it. Azure Service Bus does not provide any configuration settings for geo replication; therefore, you must implement your own DR strategy.

There are two types of outages that can occur-message store failures and data center outages. Message store failures occur when the underlying storage subsystem fails due to hardware faults. Data center outages may occur due to a failed update deployment to the subsystem services, power outages due to a power supply failure or backup generators and network connectivity failures.

To mitigate against message store failures, you will need to create a queue with multiple partitions. These partitions are guaranteed to be created on different storage systems within the same data...