Replicas across availability zones

Yup. There’s the flag --raft='group=...;'

$ dgraph alpha --help
...
      --raft string                Raft options
                                       group=; Provides an optional Raft Group ID that this Alpha would indicate to Zero to join.
                                       ...

If this flag isn’t set, then the group assignment happens automatically when the Dgraph Alpha first starts up and connects to Dgraph Zero.