Windows Azure Geo-Location is Live

Back at Mix ‘09, we announced that Windows Azure will have support for specifying which geographical region you want your Cloud Service to run.

If you now go to create a new Hosted Service on the Azure Services Developer Portal, you will be presented with an option to put the service in an Affinity Group and select the region for that Affinity Group.

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You will then see the Affinity Group listed on the summary page for your Hosted Service Project.

When you go to create another project, be it a Hosted Service or Storage Account, you can choose to put that storage account in an existing Affinity Group, this will geographically co-locate your compute and/or storage projects.

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From the announcement referenced above:

Accounts inside an affinity group will be dealt with as one unit and placed together for connectivity. For example, if you create an affinity group placed in North Western United States and place multiple storage accounts and hosted services in there, we’ll allocate these together in that geographical region, so that all of the accounts will be close together from a network perspective

Pretty cool stuff, especially when data centers in more locations come online.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2009
    Nice feature indeed. Any guess concerning the timing about locations in Europe?

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2009
    New Feature:  Geo-Location support Starting in May, a new option was added to the portal to support

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2009
    Windows Azure has continued adding features since the last major update at MIX.  Additional features and SDK updates will continue to roll out in the coming weeks and months. Cool New Feature #1:  Geo-Location support Starting in May, a new

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2009
    GEO Location Support added In Windows Azure Update