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Microsoft recently announced further expansion of the number of Azure regions (datacenter locations) and ExpressRoute (WAN) points of presence around the world.
In the parlance of Microsoft Azure, a region is a geographic location with one or more data centers that Microsoft uses to run the Azure public cloud. When you deploy something in Azure, you pick which region you want to deploy it into. There are a number of reasons that Microsoft wants Azure to be a global service:
Microsoft has made a lot of announcements about the expansion of the Azure cloud over the last year or so. There were already 24 regions generally available around the world. Regions have been announced for:
The health of Azure regions from the Azure Portal [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
You can connect to Azure over a private network by using either a VPN connection or a WAN connection that has a service level agreement (SLA) from a service provider. The WAN option is called ExpressRoute by Microsoft. To reduce latency, there are a number of global locations that ISPs can use to connect to the Azure global network. Note that the orange dots represent connections to “private” installations of Azure (China, US government, and Germany).
A map of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute locations [Image Credit: Microsoft]
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