What is the primary difference between Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) and Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)?

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LRS is for structured data, while GRS is for unstructured data.

GRS copies your data to a secondary region, while LRS keeps all copies within a single datacenter.

LRS provides read access during an outage, while GRS does not.

GRS is free, while LRS incurs a monthly charge.

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Focus on the prefixes: 'Locally' vs 'Geo'.

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B.GRS copies your data to a secondary region, while LRS keeps all copies within a single datacenter.✓ Correct

Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) replicates your data three times within a single physical location in the primary region. Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region using LRS, and then copies your data asynchronously to a single physical location in a secondary region.

Common mistakes

Confusing LRS with ZRS (Zone-Redundant Storage). ZRS spans multiple datacenters in one region; LRS is just one datacenter.

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