Core Architectural Components of Azure
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Azure regions and region pairs:
- In order to provide Azure service around the globe, Microsoft has created boundaries called geographies. A geography boundary is often boundary of a country.
- In Azure we have many geographies Refer Here
- UK Geography
- Canada Geography
- US Geography and so on
- Within each geography, Microsoft has create another logical boundary which is referred as regional pair and Each geography has regions
- To understand the regions and their presence on the globe Refer Here
- At each region, Microsoft has built datacenters that contain physical hardware that Azure uses
- Relation b/w Geography, Regional Pair and Region
- Refer Here for all the regional pairs
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Availability Zones:
Note
- Creating Azure Free tier account Refer Here
- Creating an Azure VM Refer Here
