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by kylemuir
1724 days ago
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I imagine Microsoft announcing a data centre here played a significant role - AWS wouldn't want to be the cloud service with _less_ regions than Microsoft. There are significant AWS customers in New Zealand (Xero jumps to mind) that I imagine Microsoft would love to target with that differentiator of a local data centre. |
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25+8 under construction for AWS[0]
65(some under construction) for Azure[1]
However Azure regions are a single DC, while an AWS region is 3 Availability Zones ( each being at least a single DC), which is much much better for redundancy. Remember that time the whole of Azure's portal and O365 were inaccessible (nobody could log in) because some equipment failed in a single DC in Texas? Design for failure
0 - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ 1 - https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/microsoft-azure-announces-...