January 20, 2026
Application volume group for Oracle now supports cross-region and cross-zone replication to improve the resilience and data protection of your Oracle deployments. With cross-zone and cross-region replication, Azure NetApp Files only replicates changed blocks across regions or zones, enabling a lower restore point objective. To understand more of the benefits of each option, see Understand data protection and disaster recovery options in Azure NetApp Files. Cross-zone and cross-region replication for application volume group for Oracle is currently only supported in the REST API. Now generally available.