General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
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Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.
Geo-redundancy is critical to ensure high availability and to meet various compliance and regulatory requirements for your production workloads (for example, line-of-business (LOB) applications). Geo-redundant storage asynchronously replicates to a secondary region enabling you to [failover](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/common/storage-initiate-account-failover) to the secondary region, if the primary region becomes unavailable.
In regions that are now generally available, the standard file share capacity and performance limits for new and existing geo-redundant shares have significantly increased:
* Capacity per share limit increases from 5 TiB to 100 TiB (20x increase)
* Max IOPS per share limit increases from 1,000 IOPS to the storage account limit (20x increase)
* Max throughput per share increases from 60 MiB/s up to the storage account limit (150x increase)
Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares is now generally available in [30 regions](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/files/geo-redundant-storage-for-large-file-shares#region-availability) and we will be expanding to all regions in the coming months.
To get started, visit [Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares](https://aka.ms/azurefiles/grsforlfs).
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