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One thing Microsoft has really nailed, is the location diversity of Azure datacenters. They have multiple locations in South Africa and UAE, while also having r
by antome 7y ago
One thing Microsoft has really nailed, is the location diversity of Azure datacenters. They have multiple locations in South Africa and UAE, while also having regions in multiple cities across Australia, Japan and India. If I wanted to launch a worldwide product, why would I want to go with AWS, Google or IBM?
- arethuza 7y agoTwo in the UK as well (UK South and UK West) which is a serious consideration for a lot of organisations.
- ps101 7y agoGenuinely asking as I don't work in that space - what's the advantage of this location diversity?
- slouch 7y agoServices respond more quickly when the datacenter is closer to the user
- me_again 7y agoMany cloud customers have regulatory or business requirements that their data be held within particular regions or national boundaries. It should also help somewhat with latency, though in most cases CDN points of presence will be more critical.
- october_sky 7y agoExcept, those regulatory or business requirements also have business continuity and disaster recovery requirements from those same regulators, and Azure's region design is far inferior than alternatives.
- pdelgallego 7y agoAzure regions/AZs are not equal to AWS regions/AZs thats why a single lightning strike can take down a whole region. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/microsoft/azure-outage-proves-hard-way-availability-zones-are-good-idea https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/microsoft/azure-outage-p...