Dataflow now supports streaming high availability for Streaming Engine jobs ( Preview )
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Dataflow now supports streaming high availability for Streaming Engine jobs ( Preview ). When you enable the requires_high_availability service option, Dataflow replicates backend state across multiple zones in a region to protect your job from single-zone failures. For more information, see Streaming high availability .
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