Microsoft on Friday announced that its Azure Availability Zones datacenter uptime assurance offering for virtual machine (VM) workloads is now commercially available in two Azure regions. The new ...

The Azure Availability Zones uptime assurance offering for hosted workloads is now ready for use by some Azure users, according to a Microsoft announcement on Friday. The new service addition, which ...

The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and backup options for customers running ...

Last year, Microsoft was slowly starting to ramp up its Azure Availability Zone coverage. Today, March 17, officials publicly committed to offering Azure Availability Zones in every county in which ...

Microsoft made a few notable Azure announcements this week, including an Azure Availability Zones expansion, plus ExpressRoute support for the Azure DevOps service. Azure Availability Zones have now ...

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No matter what cloud you build on, if you want to build something that’s highly available, you’re always going to opt to put your applications and data in at least two physically separated regions.

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Microsoft officials have been talking up over the past year the company's plans to try to provide greater Azure resiliency and capacity. Despite its moves, market analysis firm Gartner dinged ...

In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the expansion of High Availability (HA) and resiliency options for customers. The update comes in the form of Azure Availability Zones which increase the ...

Microsoft Azure offers developers access to more data center regions than its competitors, but it was late to the game of offering different availability zones in those regions for high-availability ...