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In cloud computing, an availability zone is a subset of an IT infrastructure system that shares no service-critical components (including power, cooling and access) with any other availability zone. Availability zones are typically geographically separated from one another, to prevent local disasters from acting on more than one availability zone.
Azure Maps is a suite of cloud-based, location-based services provided by Microsoft as part of the company's Azure platform. The platform provides geospatial and location-based services via REST APIs and software development kits (SDKs). The service is typically used to integrate maps or geospatial data into applications.
Columbia Data Center is Microsoft's data center in Quincy, Washington. Property at Quincy was purchased in 2006; the building opened in April, 2007; [3] and the data center reached operational status in May, 2007. [4] It was said to be the largest data center in the world as of 2015. [5]
After announcing its latest data center region in Austria earlier this month and an expansion of its footprint in Brazil, Microsoft today unveiled its plans to open a new region in Taiwan. This ...
Microsoft today announced its plans to launch a new data center region in Austria, its first in the country. With nearby Azure regions in Switzerland, Germany, France and a planned new region in ...
Microsoft Azure uses large-scale virtualization at Microsoft data centers worldwide and offers more than 600 services. [11] Microsoft Azure offers a service level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 99.9% availability for applications and data hosted on its platform, subject to specific terms and conditions outlined in the SLA documentation.
Most commercial data centers are Tier III; instead of using Tier IV datacentres, many large service providers typically use multiple availability zones to implement of their services, thus achieving greater resilience than would be possible with any single data centre. [citation needed] The data center tier system was created by the Uptime ...
Cosmos DB databases can be configured to be available in any of the Microsoft Azure regions (54 regions as of December 2018), letting application developers place their data closer to where their users are. [13] Each container's data gets transparently replicated across all configured regions.