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Availability Groups can be part of clustered, and nonclustered, SQL Server instances. An Availability Group is a set of SQL Server databases that fail together. Each availability group supports a set of primary databases and up to eight secondary replicas, each with a replica on a different node in a failover cluster.
AppSync can create and restore copies of databases in availability groups by: