📝 Azure Storage Account uses Locally Redundant Storage replication option 🟢

• Contextual name: 📝 Storage Account uses Locally Redundant Storage replication option 🟢
• ID: /ce/ca/azure/storage/locally-redundant-storage
• Located in: 📁 Azure Storage

Flags

• 🟢 Policy with categories
• 🟢 Policy with type
• 🟢 Production policy

Our Metadata

• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Category:
  • RELIABILITY

Logic

• 🧠 prod.logic.yaml 🟢
  • 📕 Azure Storage Account
  • 🔌 Azure Storage Account - object.extracts.yaml
  • 🧪 test-data.json

Description

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Description

Verify that Azure Storage Accounts are not configured with Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) replication.

Azure Storage offers multiple replication options to enhance data durability and availability. Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) replicates data synchronously three times within a single physical location (i.e., a single data center), offering basic least expensive protection against hardware failures.

Rationale

Although LRS provides resilience against local hardware issues such as drive or server rack failures, it does not offer protection against data center-wide disruptions—such as those caused by natural disasters, power outages, or large-scale equipment failures.

For higher availability and fault tolerance across broader scopes (e.g., availability zones or geographic regions), it is recommended to use one of the following replication options:

Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS): Replicates data across multiple availability zones within a region.

Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS): Replicates data to a secondary geographic region.

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Remediation

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Remediation

Important Considerations

• Refer to the official Microsoft documentation for up-to-date guidance on limitations, replication options, and capabilities.
• Always validate replication changes in a non-production environment before applying them in production to avoid service disruptions or data loss.

Switching to Geo-Redundant Storage

Azure CLI

az storage account update \
--name {{storage-account-name}} \
--resource-group {{resource-group-name}} \
--sku {{sku}}

PowerShell

Set-AzStorageAccount `
    -ResourceGroupName "{{resource-group-name}}" `
    -Name "{{storage-account-name}}" `
    -SkuName "{{sku}}"

Note: To migrate to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS), you must first switch the account to GRS. Afterward, you can convert it to GZRS using the migration commands described in the next section.

Conversion to Zone-Redundant Storage

A redundancy "conversion" is the process of changing the zone-redundancy aspect of a storage account to convert from LRS to Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS), or from GRS to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS).

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policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 System Configuration			25