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Azure Global Infrastructure.


Regions, Geographies & Availability Zones
Azure Global Infrastructure Overview
q Azure Global Infrastructure’s building blocks are:
q Regions
q Availability Zones
q Geographies
q Region pairs

q We will briefly touch on each of these components in order to


understand what they are and what is the value they bring to
the customer

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Azure Regions
Azure Regions
q A region is a set of datacenters deployed within a latency-
defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated
regional low-latency network

q When deploying resources in Azure we need to select:


q Region
q High Availability options

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What’s inside an Azure Datacenter ?
q What’s inside the “box” ?

q Servers
q Networking
q Storage
q Security
q Balancers
q Etc.

https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2019/04/09/microsoft-has-doubled-size-of-uk-azure-regions-increasing-compute-capacity-by-more-than-1500-as-country-embraces-
digital-transformation/

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Azure Cloud Global Infrastructure

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Azure Cloud Global Infrastructure 2020
q Azure Cloud in numbers:
q 55 Azure regions
q Available in 140 countries
q Up to 1.6 Pbps of bandwidth in a region
q Two Azure Government Secret region locations
undisclosed

q Azure Global Infrastructure - Locations:


https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations/

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Geographies in Azure Cloud


Geographies in Azure Cloud
q Azure Cloud regions are organized into geographies

q A geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or


more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance
boundaries

q Each region is part of a single geography and specific


service availability, compliance and data residency apply

q Azure Global Infrastructure – Geographies:


https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/geographies/

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Azure Availability Zones


Azure Availability Zones
q When deploying highly available, mission-critical apps, it’s a
good idea to use Azure Availability Zones

q Availability Zones are physically separate datacenters within


an Azure region, with independent power, network and
cooling
West Europe Region

AZ-1 AZ-2 AZ-3

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Azure Availability Zones – 10 Regions offer AZs

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Azure Region Pairs


Region Pairs in Azure
q What if an entire Azure Region goes down ?

q Azure Region Pairs can help in this case, providing business


continuity and disaster recovery (in the cloud)
Geography

Europe Regional Pair: North Europe Region <-> West Europe Region
North Europe West Europe
min. 300 miles

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