Merge pull request #285148 from leanid-sazankou/apc/availability

Added availability section

Author: JamesJBarnett

articles/programmable-connectivity/azure-programmable-connectivity-availability.md

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+title: Availability and redundancy
+titleSuffix: Azure Programmable Connectivity
+description: Azure Programmable Connectivity availability and redundancy.
+author: leanid-sazankou
+ms.author: lsazankou
+ms.service: azure-programmable-connectivity
+ms.topic: overview
+ms.date: 08/21/2024
+ms.custom: template-overview
+---
+
+# Availability and redundancy
+
+Azure Programmable Connectivity (APC) is a regional service that can withstand and automatically handle loss of one of the datacenters within a region. However it doesn't automatically
+fail over or replicate data if there's a full regional outage. Customers must take extra actions to implement regional redundancy.
+
+## Enabling regional redundancy
+
+To enable regional redundancy, customers must manually create multiple APC gateways in the regions of their choice. The gateways must have similar sets of Network APIs enabled. Lastly, the calling code should be configured with the URLs of all provisioned gateways and invoke appropriate resiliency strategies.
+
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> Curretnly, APC does not guarantee presence of all possible combinations of Network APIs and Operators in all regions.

articles/programmable-connectivity/toc.yml

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
     href: azure-programmable-connectivity-network-apis.md
   - name: Locations and partners
     href: azure-programmable-connectivity-locations-partners.md
+  - name: Availability and redundancy
+    href: azure-programmable-connectivity-availability.md
 - name: Quickstarts
   expanded: true
   items:
@@ -37,4 +39,4 @@
   - name: Azure Roadmap
     href: https://azure.microsoft.com/roadmap/?category=networking
   - name: Blog
-    href: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-for-operators-blog/azure-programmable-connectivity-empowering-the-next-generation/ba-p/4063967 
+    href: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-for-operators-blog/azure-programmable-connectivity-empowering-the-next-generation/ba-p/4063967