Azure Physical Infrastructure

Data Centre

Regions and Region Pairs

Geographics

Availablity Azone

Data Centre

• Physical Facility
• Hosting for a group of networked servers
• Own power, cooling & networking infrastructure

Example of Data Center

Collection of data centre is region (connected to each otherdirectly)

Regions

• Geographical area on the planet
• One but usually more data centres connected with low latency network
• Location for your service
• Some services are available only in certain regions
• some services are global services, as such are not assigned (deployed in specific regions)
• Globally available with 50+ regions
• Special government regions(US DOD Centre, US Gov virgra, etc.. )
• Special partnered regions (China East, China North)

Azure Regions

Availablity Zones

• Regional feature
• Grouping of physical separate facilities
• Designed to protect from data centre failures
• If the zone goes down others continue working

Azure Availability Zone

If we are running 2 virtual machines at the same time with different availability then if one region fails other will keep on running

Region Pair

• Each region is paired with another region making it a region pair
• Region pairs are static and cannot be choosen
• Each pair resides within the same geography (Except in brazil south)
• Physical isolation with at least 300 miles distance (when possible)
• Some services have platform provided replication
• Planned updates across the pairs
• Data residency maintained for disaster recovery

Azure region pairs

All regions and region pairs are grouped into geography

Geographies

• Discrete market
• Typically contains two (or) more regions
• Ensures data residency, Sovereignty, resiliency, and compliance requirements are met
• Fault-tolerant to protect from region-wide failures
• Broken up into areas
• 1. Americans
• 2. Europe
• 3. Asia pacific
• 4. Middle East and Africa
• Each region belongs only to one geography

Azure geographies