Microsoft Azure DataCenter
It gives you the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your preferred tools and frameworks. Microsoft cloud platform is also the first hyper-scale cloud hosting provider who has committed to build hosting facilities in Africa (with two Microsoft Azure locations in South Africa).
Cloud hosting providers like Microsoft Azure is less expensive, more secure, reliable, and flexible than on-premises servers. With Azure cloud platform, equipment downtime due to maintenance, theft, or damage is almost non-existent. You can scale your compute and storage resources—up or down—almost instantly as your needs change. Also, with Microsoft cloud services, you typically pay only for the services you use, which provides a level of convenience and cost-control that’s almost impossible to achieve with on-site infrastructure.
Data Stored On Microsoft Azure Storage
Azure Storage offers a massively scalable object store for data objects, a file system service for the cloud, a messaging store for reliable messaging, and a NoSQL store. Azure Storage is:
■ Durable and highly available. Redundancy ensures that your data is safe in the event of transient hardware failures. You can also opt to replicate data across datacenters or geographical regions for additional protection from local catastrophe or natural disaster. Data replicated in this way remains highly available in the event of an unexpected outage.
■ Secure. All data written to Azure Storage is encrypted by the service. Azure Storage provides you with fine-grained control over who has access to your data.
■ Scalable. Azure Storage is designed to be massively scalable to meet the data storage and performance needs of today’s applications.
■ Managed. Microsoft Azure handles hardware maintenance, updates, and critical issues for you.
■ Accessible. Data in Azure Storage is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Microsoft provides client libraries for Azure Storage in a variety of languages, including .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, and others, as well as a mature REST API. Azure Storage supports scripting in Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI. And the Azure portal and Azure Storage Explorer offer easy visual solutions for working with your data.
Top Azure Business Benefits
Top benefits of Azure :
1. Speed
2. Agility
3. Global presence
4. Integrated development environment
5. End-to-end delivery pipeline
6. Superior disaster recovery
7. Flexible expenditure
8. Enterprise security
9. Leading Compliance
10. Azure Stack
Speed is critical to businesses of all types and is a key marker of competitive advantage. In the context of this Azure benefit, speed is prevalent across three key areas such as the speed of deployment, speed of operation and speed of scalability.
Understand Azure global infrastructure
A region is a set of datacenters deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.
With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 52 regions around the world, with plans announced for 6 additional regions.
A geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.
Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.
Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.
Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.
Azure regions, geographies, and Availability Zones form the foundation of Microsoft’s global infrastructure—providing customers high availability, disaster recovery, and backup.
Data Center Locations
| PROVIDER | COUNTRY | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | USA | Los Angeles |
| Google Cloud | USA | Iowa |
| Google Cloud | USA | South Carolina |
| Google Cloud |
Powerful add-ons
Redundancy
Our data centers offer multiple layers of physical & digital redundancy to ensure minimal downtime.
Performance
Best in class cloud infrastructure enables the business-critical apps to perform at their very best.
Uptime Guarantee
The data centers are strategically located in Tier-3 & Tier-4 locations to guarantee 99.995% uptime.
Backups
Automatic backups are extremely important for mission critical systems. Enable scheduled backups with just a few clicks from the customer portal.
Snapshots
A snapshot is a copy of your entire server. Our snapshot system can be used to create copies of existing servers and automate deployments
Flexible Networking
Cloud applications require flexible networking configurations. Our cloud instances support dynamic changes to IPv4, IPv6, and private networks.
Firewall
Our web-based firewall solution can be enabled on-demand to protect one or more compute instances. Our firewall intercepts traffic before firewall software on your servers
DDoS Protection
DDoS protection is essential for maximum uptime and peace of mind. Our DDoS mitigation system offers protection against layer 3 and layer 4 network attacks.
