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Regions and Availability Zones

MT 80 Reputation points
2023-12-21T04:29:31.33+00:00

I need to ensure that the services running on my virtual machines are available in a single data center fails.

A solution that I found is: deploy the virtual machines to two or more availability zones, but if I deploy the virtual machines to two or more regions?
Does this meet the goal too?

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  1. v-vvellanki-MSFT 4,920 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2023-12-21T05:03:20.9+00:00

    Hi @Manisha Thanuku ,

    Thanks for contacting Microsoft Q&A platform.
    I think the most accurate answer depends on your definition of a data center. You can check the definitions for Azure and particularly for Availability zone. In your case the VMs will be in different datacenter if put in different availability zones but will be in the same region.

    Hope this helps you.

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  1. TP 155.3K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-12-21T04:40:19.5466667+00:00

    Hi Manisha,

    Yes, deploying to two or more regions will meet the goal as well, however, there will be more latency (since Regions are farther apart than Availability Zones) in this case and that may cause an issue for your specific use case.

    Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

    Thanks.

    -TP

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