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The cloud landscape is forever changing, with new innovations, challenges, and opportunities coming up every day.

To be ahead of the curve and deliver the best value to your business, you need a cloud platform that scales and adapts to your unique needs. You need a cloud platform that allows seamless growth, drives new markets, leverages new technologies, and taps into the latest pricing in an ever-evolving digital landscape. What you need is Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft wants to empower you to build and run your applications and data with the highest performance, availability, and security. That’s why they continue to expand their footprint around the world and diversify their Azure regions within each country or continent. With these changes, Microsoft wants to give you more choices, more flexibility, and more resiliency for your cloud solutions, so we encourage you to take advantage of these offerings by adopting a multi-region growth strategy.

Why implement a multi-region growth strategy?

Multi-region simply refers to being able to access Azure services, resources, and capacity in a larger set of geographic areas rather than relying on a single location. Once a multi-region approach is factored into your deployment architecture, it will provide several advantages, such as:

  • Scalability and flexibility: It caters to your changing and growing cloud needs by choosing from a wide range of offerings across the Azure region portfolio that includes lower pricing, reduced carbon footprint, advanced AI capabilities, and increased deployment options. On top of that, you can personalize your cloud solutions by selecting the best fit for your workloads and scenarios.
  • Resilience and availability: It can reduce the impact of service disruptions or loss of data in catastrophic events in a region, such as natural disasters. Having multiple options for backup and recovery across regions can also enjoy higher SLAs and more peace of mind.
  • Better performance and low latency: More proximity of your data and applications to you and to your users means faster and more responsive services, specifically for latency-sensitive applications such as gaming, streaming, or e-commerce. You can also take advantage of the best connectivity and bandwidth through the optimized network routing and peering options.

Microsoft can support you with these benefits through their continuous investments in multiple regions to help them overcome more challenging complications in the industry, such as tightened government policies, regulatory compliance, environmental impact, and geopolitical risks. The expansions of their global infrastructures, for instance, those related to the datacenter region announcements in Europe, can allow Azure to always be ready and able to meet your cloud demands responsibly and sustainably.

This is why Microsoft is continuously building Azure as the world’s computer. They are to meet you where and when you need them to deliver the broadest and deepest cloud infrastructure in the industry.

How can Azure regions help you achieve your cloud goals?

As a customer, you really want to take advantage of the full strength of the cloud to transform your business, innovate faster, and deliver better experiences for your end users and customers. But, at the same time, you would also want control over where your data and applications are, how they’re protected, and how they perform. That’s why the Azure regions become so important.

Azure has more regions than any other cloud provider. It has over 60 datacenter regions in more than 35 countries. That gives you more choices than ever before for where you put your data and applications based on what your business needs are, what regulatory compliance requires, and where your customers are. By embracing agility, flexibility, and investing in new ways of building cloud solutions to take advantage of worldwide infrastructure investments across the globe, one can not only future-proof their business’s growth strategy but also maintain a leading edge in this rapidly, dynamically changing cloud landscape.

Microsoft is constantly investing in global and local infrastructure with growth in demand to ensure that it can match the limitless innovation from its customers with scalable and resilient infrastructure. When it is making decisions on where to locate new datacenters, Microsoft considers a range of factors, including but not limited to customer demand, ready access to sustainable and reliable power, high-capacity network connections, and skilled labor to determine the long-term viability of each region. The large portfolio of datacenter regions enables you to scale workloads across regions, improve resiliency, and bring your applications closer to your end users.

How to implement a cloud strategy using multiple regions in Azure?

The Cloud Adoption Framework is proven guidance designed to support you in creating and implementing the necessary business and technology strategies for your organization to succeed in the cloud. It offers best practices, guidance, and resources that cloud architects, IT pros, and decision-makers must have to ensure success in their short and long-term goals. For organizations that are currently running workloads from an Azure region, new workloads can be built in any of the Azure regions to take advantage of the specific benefits, like the reduced carbon footprint or more aggressive pricing and advanced AI capabilities.

Plan: Determine which Azure regions to use for your landing zone based on business needs and compliance needs.

Implement: Create and deploy a network topology, security, and resources that connect your landing zone regions and support high availability and scalability.

Optimize: Manage and organize your resources across regions and apply the best identity, security, reliability, cost, and performance best practices.

Leverage Azure as a cloud platform, not as a datacenter region. Microsoft believes designing for a multi-region architecture is the future of cloud computing and is a proud leader in this space. Microsoft continues to grow its global infrastructure to meet demand for cloud services and responsible growth. Safe, resilient, sustainable options for you around the globe.

Ready to make your cloud strategy unstoppable?

Connect with an Azure Expert MSP to optimize your cloud journey and fully harness the power of Microsoft Azure. Our team of experts will guide you through every step, ensuring a seamless transition and maximum impact. Reach out today and unlock the full potential of your cloud future!

October 23, 2024

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Rene Verschoor - EVP Modern Datacenter Services

Rene Verschoor, EVP at Intwo, excels in driving IT strategy through innovative datacenter solutions. His expertise in bridging digitization with infrastructure transforms challenges into clear, actionable outcomes. Passionate about building teams and businesses, Rene’s service-driven approach empowers success.