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Understand regions

Understand regions

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Understand regions

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- [Instructor] At the next level, after a geography, we have an Azure region. An Azure region is usually a part within the geography. You know how countries are segmented based on their direction? A region is similar. There can be north, south, east, west and central regions for Azure within a single geography. That's because countries vary in size, and just one region cannot always serve the entire country. The actual number of regions depends on the market size, that is, how big the geography is and the demand. Microsoft decides how many and where to place Azure regions in that geography. But there is a call to action for customers here. Customers must choose a region for their services. Every time you deploy a new service in the cloud, Microsoft requires you to specify what region you want to deploy it to. Because today's businesses operate globally, specifying the region parameter will help Microsoft to place your service appropriately. Now the question is, what region should you…

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