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I believe that Microsoft is already licensing Azure tech to big European companies to host GDPR-compliant, Azure-compliant regions in Europe. More expensive tha
by perlgeek 5y ago
I believe that Microsoft is already licensing Azure tech to big European companies to host GDPR-compliant, Azure-compliant regions in Europe. More expensive than regular Azure regions, but still in use for some purposes.
Given that the big 3 cloud providers already have some trouble providing stable operations, I suspect it won't be the pinnacle of reliability, but have no first-hand experience with them.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoI checked the Azure Pricing Calculator just now. Pricing for services in the EU GDPR "Sovereign" safe-zones (e.g. "Germany Central (Sovereign)") is largely the same as for services in other zones: Azure App Service in Germany Sovereign: $62/mo Azure App Service in West US: $54/mo 1TB Azure Storage in Germany Sovereign: $21.00 1TB Azure Storage in West US: $20.80/mo --------------- As for reliability, I haven't noticed any difference in availability and downtime between my Azure resources in any of the zones I've got services in. YMMV. Lately Azure's actually looking pretty good compared to AWS's spate of outages over the past 6 months.