Is an availability zone a data center Azure?
Azure Availability zoneAn availability zone is one or more data centers that are independent of another (power, water, natural disasters). An availability zone could have 1, 2, 3, or a million data centers. Usually, 3 is a good number: since data can be replicated to the other 2 in case of failure, you still have more than one data center operating. But you can see Availability zones with any number of data centers. The more data centers, the more resilient against shutdowns. What it can be a little bit confusing, is that an availability zone is not a physical location per se as a datacenter, but a latency-defined perimeter. Show Azure RegionNow scale that up. Imagine those datacenter are connected directly from one to the other, by low latency connections. AKA: private cable network.
Look at this graph:  Now, a region that has more availability zones, is more resilient than one with fewer availability zones. Azure GeographyIt is an area with one or more Azure Regions—for example, India, the United States, United Kingdom. Microsoft has added Southeast Asia as an Azure Availability Zone, enabling customers in the region to access its cloud services which are hosted on at least three separate physical data locations. Served out of its Azure Region in Singapore, the expanded cloud zones are now "generally available" to the Southeast Asia Azure region, Microsoft's Singapore cloud and enterprise lead Patrik Bihammar said in a blogpost on Monday. See alsoAccording to the software vendor, Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region, with each comprising of at least one datacentre equipped with its own independent power, cooling, and networking. To ensure resiliency, Bihammar said, a minimum of three separate zones have been established in all the enabled regions, a move that aims to safeguard applications and data from datacentre failures. He added that this further strengthens Microsoft's cloud capabilities to meet the needs of customers in both the public and private sectors, as well as provide a portfolio to support customers in the development of applications for their business continuity and disaster recovery efforts. "By building application architecture using a combination of Availability Zones with Azure region pairs, customers can synchronously replicate applications and data using Availability Zones within an Azure region for high-availability within Singapore, and asynchronously replicate across Azure regions for geographic disaster recovery protection," he explained. Microsoft's cloud environments adhere to several certification requirements, including Level 3 of the Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) Standard for Singapore, which is a cloud security standard that cuts across multiple tiers of cloud security. The US software vendor currently operates 54 Azure regions worldwide. Other cloud players also have been talking up their plans to expand in the Asia-Pacific region, including Google, which recently announced plans to open new cloud regions in Osaka and Hong Kong, bringing its total to seven by early-2019. Google in May added its third cloud zone in Singapore and later, in August, said it was building its third data centre in the city-state. Alibaba Group has also been ramping up its cloud action, launching a slew of cloud products for the global market in August 2018 and earmarking Asia-Pacific as a priority region for growth. Of the Chinese vendor's 10 international datacentre regions, eight are located in Asia-Pacific including Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It also operates eight regions in China. Related CoverageAMD partners Singapore university to launch AI lab Chipmaker teams up with Nanyang Technological University to set up a S$4.8 million (US$3.5 million) lab aimed at building up local skillsets in data science and artificial intelligence. ST Telemedia to build another Singapore data centre amidst growing cloud demand Its seventh such facility in Singapore, the data centre will be STT Telemedia Global Data Centres' largest in the country, spanning 27,000 square metres and touting a load capacity of more than 30 megawatt. Singapore to spend $10M on new urban technology Singapore government has earmarked S$14 million (US$10.19 million) over three years to fund the development of smart estates and modern technology, such as energy efficient applications. Singapore, China to collaborate on fintech initiatives Central banks from both countries have inked an agreement to jointly work on fintech innovation projects, research, and regulations, whilst two companies from both countries will collaborate on cross-border services. Is availability Zone same as data center Azure?Azure Availability Zone
These are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking. The physical separation of Availability Zones within a region protects applications and data from datacenter failures.
How many data centers are in availability zone Azure?To ensure resiliency, a minimum of three separate availability zones are present in all availability zone-enabled regions. Azure availability zones are connected by a high-performance network with a round-trip latency of less than 2ms.
What is a datacenter in Azure?An Azure data center is a unique physical building that contains thousands of physical servers with it's own power, cooling and networking infrastructure. These data ceneters are located all over the globe. As of this course recording, there are over 160+ Azure datacenters.
What is a data Centre availability zone?Availability zones (AZs) are isolated data centers located within specific regions in which public cloud services originate and operate. Cloud computing businesses typically have multiple worldwide availability zones.
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