One of the most important things in a cloud service is location. Everyone cares where they put their data. Sometimes it is for compliance reasons. Sometimes it is for performance. Sometimes the reasons are even fictional!<\/p>\n
Azure now has 50 (announced) regions<\/a> around the world, including:<\/p>\n And now some different ones have joined the list.<\/p>\n Microsoft just launched two new regions in Australia, that are designed for anyone requiring certification for Australian government service, like the Australian government. These regions, Asutralia Central and Australia Central 2 (both in southeast Australia!) are co-located in another company\u2019s (Canberra Data Centres) two data centers and are connected to Azure via ExpressRoute.<\/p>\n Also launched are France Central (with generally available availability zones for 99.99% SLA) and France South, joining the two UK and two Europe regions.<\/p>\n Microsoft has also announced more Azure regions:<\/p>\n The previously announced South Africa regions still are not generally available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the most important things in a cloud service is location. Everyone cares where they put their data. Sometimes it is for compliance reasons. Sometimes it is for performance. Sometimes the reasons are even fictional! Azure now has 50 (announced) regions around the world, including: \u201cPublic\u201d regions that anyone can use Government-only regions in … Continue reading “Lots of New Region News in Azure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,264],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","tag-azure","tag-regions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
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joining the<\/del>\u00a0which are not joining the trustee regions of Germany Central and Germany Northeast. These regions are surprisingly going to be a part of the European cluster of regions.<\/li>\n