January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
754 pages
18h 13m
English
Azure as a global cloud platform provides multiple regions to deploy resources to. One region consists of at least one highly available data center or data center complex. At the time of writing, 54 regions are distributed all over the world and include community clouds, so-called sovereign regions.
Microsoft also divides its regions into geopolitical zones, which can be found at the following URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/regions/.
These sovereign clouds where built by Microsoft to fit customer or governmental needs, such as for special compliance and/or data privacy laws. At the moment, the following sovereign clouds are available:
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