Azure map service region

Pascal 1

The azure Maps service is identified as a "Non-regional service".
It isn't clear from all documentation to determine the geographical location that will serve the request.
Assuming an application is deployed on the Azure UAE North data center. When a call to Azure maps is performed, is that call served from the UAE data center or is the call redirected to a different data center across the world ? Any fix data center serving these non-regional products ?

Is it the same for App_Insight ?

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António Sérgio Azevedo 7,666 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-11-24T17:26:40.733+00:00

Hello @Pascal ,

By definition on a search in the web:
"Non-regional services: Services that don't depend on a specific Azure region, making them resilient to zone-wide outages as well as region-wide outages."

See: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/services/?products=azure-maps

By that, you aren't in control on what server serves your application (this is Azure internals). Are you experiencing high latencies? Can you develop more on what you are trying to achieve?

Thanks.
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António Sérgio Azevedo 7,666 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-11-30T20:34:20.127+00:00

Hello @Pascal ,
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Pascal Hochart 6 Reputation points

2021-12-03T02:24:25.557+00:00

Hi,

Thanks for the answer. Yes I've seen that notice about the meaning of non-regional. In our scenario we have to deploy application in-country and we need to justify all out-of country connections. Therefore I was wondering if the location of teh server serving the map request are predetermined based on geographical location, or is selected based on other criteria with some 'priority' orders such as : same DC, proximity, load ?

António Sérgio Azevedo 7,666 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-12-03T17:46:31.283+00:00

Helllo @Pascal Hochart I totally understand your concern. Thank you for providing more details!

This would require full replication of the entire massive petabytes of data at each local node which is not scalable. Therefore Azure Maps can’t be region specific nor would be able to offer a regional service.

Let me know if I can help you further?

Thank you!
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