What scenario does Cross Zonal Restore specifically address?

Cross Zonal Restore specifically addresses the capability to restore virtual machines (VMs) to any availability zone from restore points. This is particularly useful in cloud environments where high availability and fault tolerance are critical. By allowing the restoration of VMs across different availability zones, it helps to enhance resilience against zone-specific failures.

When a failure occurs in one availability zone, having the ability to restore a VM to another zone ensures that services can rapidly resume without significant downtime. This capability is crucial for maintaining business continuity, as it allows for quick recovery processes while adhering to the architecture designed for redundancy and recovery.

The other scenarios mentioned, such as restoring to a different region or within the same subscription, focus on different aspects of data recovery and availability but do not specifically highlight the cross-zonal recovery feature, which is aimed at restoring VMs across availability zones.