Azure Regions
The Region is a Specific geographical location to host your applications. Each region is designed to comply with specific laws and regulations and to provide low-latency network connectivity to specific geographic areas.
Azure regions offer customers the ability to choose where their data is stored and processed, which can be important for compliance, data sovereignty, and performance reasons. Each Azure region is made up of one or more availability zones, which are physically separate locations within the region that provide additional resiliency and redundancy for Azure services. Customers can use availability zones to run mission-critical workloads that require high availability and low recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). To know about the Complete architecture of Microsoft Azure Refer to the Microsoft Azure – High-Level Overview of Architecture Center.
Microsoft Azure – What are Regions and Availability Zones
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure service. It provides a comprehensive set of technologies that allow you to build, test and deploy your applications using the Microsoft technology stack: Windows Server, SQL Server, System Center, Microsoft Office, and more. Microsoft Azure offers a wide range of tools, such as tools for developers, business professionals, data & analytics users, storage users, and power users.