Azure Global Infrastructure

Region

• Is the geographical location where infrastructure (data center) is hosted

• In Azure there are two kinds of Regions

  • Region: One place/site is choosen in the location and datacenters are built there
  • Region With Zones: In each region more than one location called as zone is choosen.

• In every country where azure has presence, it will have more than one Region.

Azure Backbone Network

• Microsoft has built a backbone which connects all the regions and Edge locations.
• For Full Info Refer Here

Edge Locations

• Is a smaller datacenter with two important objectives
  • Enable Connectivity to Customers to connect to the back bone network
  • Point of Presence for Streaming/Content Delivery Networks