Azure services relocation guidance overview (Preview)

As Microsoft continues to expand Azure global infrastructure and launch new Azure regions worldwide, there's an increasing number of options available for you to relocate your workloads into new regions. Region relocation options vary by service and by workload architecture. To successfully relocate a workload to another region, you need to plan your relocation strategy with an understanding of what each service in your workload requires and supports.

Azure region relocation documentation (Preview) contains service-specific relocation guidance for Azure products and services. The relocation documentation set is founded on both Azure Cloud Adoption Framework - Relocate cloud workloads as well as the following Well-architected Framework (WAF) Operational Excellence principles:

Each service specific guide can contain service-specific information on topics such as:

Azure services relocation guides

The following tables provide links to each Azure service relocation document. The tables also provide information on which kind of relocation method is supported.

Analytics

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Azure Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs Cluster
Azure Stream Analytics - Stream Analytics jobs
Azure Stream Analytics - Stream Analytics cluster
Power BI

Compute

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Azure App Service
Azure Batch
Azure Functions
Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Containers

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Azure Container Registry
Azure Functions
Azure Kubernetes Service

Databases

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Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Database for MariaDB Server
Azure Database for MySQL Server
Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Integration

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Azure API Management
Azure Logic apps

Internet of Things

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Azure API Management
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Event Grid domains
Azure Event Grid custom topics
Azure Event Grid system topics
Azure Functions
Azure IoT Hub
Azure Stream Analytics - Stream Analytics jobs
Azure Stream Analytics - Stream Analytics cluster

Management and governance

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Azure Automation
Azure Backup
Azure Monitor - Log Analytics
Azure Site Recovery (Recovery Services vaults)

Networking

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Azure Application Gateway and Web Application Firewall
Azure Load Balancer
Azure Private Link Service
Azure Virtual Network
Azure Virtual Network - Network Security Groups

Security

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Azure Firewall
Azure Application Gateway and Web Application Firewall
Azure Key Vault
Managed identities for Azure resources

Storage

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Azure Backup
Azure NetApp Files
Azure Storage Account

Additional information