We actually pay for georeplication on Azure. Here's the official response from them: "Why didn’t we just fail over? We do have geo-replication for Windows Azur

We actually pay for georeplication on Azure. Here's the official response from them: "Why didn’t we just fail over? We do have geo-replication for Windows Azure Blobs and Tables, where the data from US South is geo-replicated to keep another replica set of the data in US North. We have chosen at this time not to failover, since we believe we can bring back the primary storage stamp in US South in place. One of the advantages of recovering in place is it avoids losing the Windows Azure Queue data in that stamp, since Windows Azure Queues is not being geo-replicated at this time (we are working towards turning that on)."