Microsoft Azure had already (Edit: actually three) datacentres in India: India is Microsoft tech heavy (things change though). Funny story. A few years back,

Microsoft Azure had already (Edit: actually three) datacentres in India: India is Microsoft tech heavy (things change though). Funny story. A few years back, I got a call from one of their Azure BizDev reps. I told them I was happy they supported Linux and the guy wanted to hang up so fast...lol!