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page_title: Redundancy Zones (Enterprise)
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Redundancy zones are regions of a cluster containing "hot standby" servers, or non-voting servers that can replace voting servers in the event of a failure. Learn about redundancy zones and how they improve resiliency and increase fault tolerance without affecting latency.
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# Redundancy Zones
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This feature requires
self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
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<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
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{' '}for additional information.
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</EnterpriseAlert>
Consul Enterprise redundancy zones provide
both scaling and resiliency benefits by enabling the deployment of non-voting
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servers alongside voting servers on a per availability zone basis.
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When using redundancy zones, if an operator chooses to deploy Consul across 3 availability zones, they
could have 2 (or more) servers (1 voting/1 non-voting) in each zone. In the event that a voting
member in an availability zone fails, the redundancy zone configuration would automatically
promote the non-voting member to a voting member. In the event that an entire availability
zone was lost, a non-voting member in one of the existing availability zones would promote
to a voting member, keeping server quorum. This capability functions as a "hot standby"
for server nodes while also providing (and expanding) the capabilities of
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[enhanced read scalability](/docs/enterprise/read-scale) by also including recovery
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capabilities.
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For more information, complete the [Redundancy Zones](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/autopilot-datacenter-operations#redundancy-zones) tutorial
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and reference the [Consul Autopilot](/commands/operator/autopilot) documentation.
