Is it possible to have a cluster Disk from cloud storage

I have a use case where my destination array of my primary storage array I want to keep in the cloud. Using cloud storage controllers i believe it's possible to have data replication on the remote cloud storage.
Now using microsoft clustering i want to create a cluster of two nodes - Node A and Node B. Both these nodes are in my org premises.
With Node A i connect the local storage array and present a SAN disk to it. This SAN disk is imported into the microsoft failover cluster as a cluster disk.
With Node B I want to connect a virtual disk obtained directly from cloud. This cloud disk is the destination disk (due to the data replication between the two disks they will always be trying to sync) of the primary disk which we connected to Node A.
My Question is whether it's possible to have such a virtual disk carved out from cloud storage which can be included as a cluster disk into microsoft failover cluster. And at the backend act as the destination disk of my local storage array disk.
sk

so I think you have two issues here. The first is you want replication between your local SAN and cloud storage, which I haven't seen any commercially available options so far.
The other is you want to use a disk on top of cloud storage. In Azure you have the option to use Azure Drive which implements an NTFS drive on top of Blob Storage. However this only works from inside Azure, you can't mount a drive from Azure Storage to a
local machine.
Another point about your setup is the cluster resource - typically you setup a cluster using a shared resource, read both of your nodes would access the same resource. In your outlined scenario though you're trying to replace the shared resource by a replicated
resource, I'm not quite sure if this is a valid setup for the cluster. Otherwise you won't be able to use Azure Drive as Shared resource since both nodes would have R/W while Azure Drive allows only exclusive R/W for one node.
Seems there are some issues with your concept outside of the Azure part which you may need to verify.

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