Microsoft continues its steady
pace of opening up new data centers and launching new regions for its Azure cloud.
Today, the company announced the launch of two new regions in Australia.
To deliver these new regions, Azure Australia Central and Central 2,
Microsoft entered a strategic partnership with Canberra Data Centers and
unsurprisingly, the regions are located in the country’s capital territory
around Canberra. These new central regions complement Microsoft’s existing data
center presence in Australia, which previously focused on the business centers
of Sydney and Melbourne.
Given the
location in Canberra, it’s also no surprise that Microsoft is putting an
emphasis on its readiness for handling government workloads on its platform.
Throughout its announcement, the company also emphasizes that all of its
Australia data centers are also the right choice for its customers in New
Zealand.
Julia White,
Microsoft corporate VP for Azure, told
me last month that the company’s strategy around its data center expansion has
always been about offering a lot of small regions to allow it to be close to
its customers (and, in return, to allow its customers to be close to their own
customers, too). “The big distinction is the number of regions we have. “White
said. “Microsoft started its infrastructure approach focused on enterprise
organizations and built lots of regions because of that. We didn’t pick this
regional approach because it’s easy or because it’s simple, but because we
believe this is what our customers really want.”
Ye bhi padhna chahiye aapko:
Azure
currently consists of 50 available or announced regions. Over time, more of
these will also feature numerous availability zones inside every region, though
for now, this recently announced feature is only present in two
regions.
Microsoft launches 2 new Azure regions in Australia
Reviewed by Anand Yadav
on
April 02, 2018
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