Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability ... may always be slightly behind your active on-prem database. That is not a shortcoming of a hybrid architecture ...

The ability to scale on the fly saves both on cost and can aid a growing business, as evident by an example given ... processing (MPP) architecture that is found in its SQL Server 2016 database ...

For example, Google has what could ... because region-wide disasters are rare. SQL Server offers two of its own HA/DR features: Always On Failover Cluster Instances and Always On Availability Groups.