Azure’s availability zones are now generally available

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All of the bigclouds also offer a concept called ‘availability zones’ in their regions to offer developers the option to host their applications in two separate data centers in the same zone for a bit of extra resilience.All big clouds, that is, except for Azure, which is only launching its availability zones feature into general availability today after first announcing a beta last September .Ahead of today’s launch, Julia White, Microsoft’s corporate VP for Azure, told me that the company’s design philosophy behind its data center network was always about servicing commercial customers with the widest possible range of regions to allow them to be close to their customers and to comply with local data sovereignty and privacy laws.“Microsoft started its infrastructure approach focused on enterprise organizations and built lots of regions because of that,” White said.“We didn’t pick this regional approach because it’s easy or because it’s simple, but because we believe this is what our customers really want.”

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