Virtual Machines in the country where the users are located.

Paul Heinisch 21 Reputation points
2021-04-05T19:34:55.13+00:00

I have some Windows 10 virtual systems in the West coast azure; I now how some users in India that need azure virtual windows 10 systems. Does it make sense to have them connect to virtual machines in an India azure data center than our west coast US data center? Does it matter? Will it be a better performance to have them run virtual machines in their own country rather than crossing the global to a west coast data center? Keep in mind... their office 365 email is located in US and their main application is running on azure west coast...so they will eventually be running those in the west coast US.

Thanks

Paul

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  1. Andreas Baumgarten 95,181 Reputation points MVP
    2021-04-05T19:57:28.597+00:00

    Hi @Paul Heinisch ,

    maybe it's helpful to run some tests and verify the numbers, This should help to find the answer.

    https://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/Latency

    Open the website in a browser on a machine in India and check the latency with the Azure West Coast.
    It's possible to check the up- and download performance with this website as well.
    Depending on your requirements these numbers might help to make a decision.

    Just an example:
    The VM is running in Azure region North-Europe

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    (If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

    Regards
    Andreas Baumgarten

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  1. Paul Heinisch 21 Reputation points
    2021-04-05T19:59:16.043+00:00

    Thanks @Andreas Baumgarten I will look into it.