Azure Global Infrastructure
- Azure Has Regions where the infrastructure is available for usage
- Regions are of two types in Azure
- Regions
- Regions with Zones (3)
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Paired Regions exist for enabling disaster recovery and quick data sync between regions
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Azure Global/Backbone network:
- This is a backbone network which connects all the Azure regions and edge locations
- This is a backbone network which connects all the Azure regions and edge locations
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Edge Location: This is a datacenter with purpose of
- acting like a Point of Presence location for a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- act as an interface to connect on-premises to Azure Back bone network.
