If you use a secondary Azure SQL Managed Instance deployment as a standby for disaster recovery without any ready workloads, you can save on licensing costs by activating the "Failover Rights Benefit". It requires to designate the secondary replica as a Standby Instance. This video shows you different options to activate the Failover Rights Benefit.

Chapters:
00:09 Introduction
00:16 What is Failover Rights Benefit
00:59 How to activate Failover Rights Benefits
03:22 What is allowed for standby replicas
03:38 What is the impact on the licensing mode and the billing


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