Azure Managed Disks are inherently replicated. But there are other storage solutions (like redundant WebHDFS) you can take advantage of. At the time, the custom

Azure Managed Disks are inherently replicated. But there are other storage solutions (like redundant WebHDFS) you can take advantage of. At the time, the customers I was talking to wanted to have identical deployments in the cloud (to what they had on-premises, down to the number and size of disks).