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)
• Paired Regions exist for enabling disaster recovery and quick data sync between regions
  
• Azure Global/Backbone network:
  • This is a backbone network which connects all the Azure regions and edge locations
    
• 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.