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What is the difference between Availability Zones and Regions in Microsoft Azure Cloud?


I am studying about microsoft Azure. Not able to understand difference between availability zones and regions.


Solution

  • Actually azure has the doc to describe the details about what's Availability Zones.

    Firstly check: What are Availability Zones in Azure?

    Availability Zones is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures. Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

    In another doc explains what's regions.

    A region is a set of datacenters deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.