Azure geo-replication does not work - Feature is disabled

Question

When I try and add geo-replication to a database (s0) in which is on the east coast (tried both the azure management console and the azure portal); it creates the west coast server and
I guess the next step is to create the replicattion database., but it fails. The error I get is "Feature is disabled" and does not create the database
Any idea what feature needs to be enabled for this to work? the entire process seems pretty click forward., no idea why it would fail.
Edit: details on error
OPERATIONNAME: Update
SQL database
Status: Failed
SUBSTATUS: Bad
Request (HTTP Status Code: 400)
Level: Error
PROPERTIES: statusCode:BadRequest
statusMessage:{"code":"45150","message":"Feature is disabled.","target":null,"details":[{"code":"45150","message":"Feature is disabled.","target":null,"severity":"16"}],"innererror":[]}

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for posting here.
I suggest you to check this link.
Standard Geo-Replication for Azure SQL Database:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn758204.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2014/08/12/step-by-step-azure-sql-database-introduces-geo-restore-standard-geo-replication-and-auditing.aspx
peer 2 peer replication is not supported on standard edition, but bi-directional replication is. Here is a tutorial on how to make this work.
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/hilary_cotter/archive/2011/10/28/implementing-bi-directional-transactional-replication.aspx
Hope this helps you.
Girish Prajwal