In this section, you have learned about some of the enhancements and changes in AlwaysOn Availability Groups with the release of SQL Server 2104. These changes allow you to build up highly available solutions that consist of both on-premise and cloud-based replicas, which when combined can provided a high degree of flexibility and reliability while configuring your high availability solution.

In the next chapter, we will explore some additional performance features that have been added in SQL Server 2014.