Azure API Management Premium - do we really need a backup strategy

Question

If we use Azure API management premium do we need to create a backup (disaster recovery) strategy?

It is replicated in as many separate regions as you want.

In the past, with non-premium we have called the API Management REST API to backup to Azure blog storage.

Obviously, you should always have a DR strategy but just wondering if it is overkill in this scenario.

Answer 1

Azure ApiManagement offers SLA on Proxy/Gateway uptime, so if you have a API Management deployed in multiple regions, the Proxy will continue to run, automatically failing over to non affected regions.

However the Publisher Portal, Developer Portal and Management REST Endpoint is still only hosted in the Master Region. If there a region wide disaster in the Master region of your service, they will not be accessible. Which would mean you cannot add new API/operations and new customers cannot subscribe for your service.

If one of the additional regions is impacted, the Proxy/Gateway it will sync up to latest configuration before starting up.