AZURE & CLOUD

How to Choose the Azure Region

What you should consider before choosing Azure Region? How Microsoft geographically divide datacentres position to secure high availability and disaster recovery?

Introduction

Most of the Azure resources demand the region to be specified. I was struggling with this choice and always picked the one nearest to my location. Lately, I found out that the choice should be made more based on the physical location of resource users than the location of me, and I changed it.

After a while, one question still bothers me — Does the choice of region matter more than I think? Then, I started to dig deeper into this topic and boy. It really matters, especially on enterprise application levels.

Azure Regions

Azure regions approximately specified Azure Resource’s physical location. It is not the precise location of the machine your resource is hosted on but it’s more the scope where you expect the majority of requests. So, the first question you should ask yourself is:

Where is most service users?

Some services are not available in every region. You can find out which service is…