Microsoft Azure is now available in a new region in China

Posted by Marbenz Antonio on March 17, 2022

Customers will have unlimited access to a new Azure region in North China starting March 1, 2022, bringing the total number of Azure regions in China to five and doubling the capacity of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud offering in China.

Microsoft Azure, managed by 21Vianet, was the first international public cloud service to become publicly accessible in the China market, having been announced in 2012 and formally launched in March 2014 with two initial areas. Following Azure, 21Vianet released Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Power Platform in China in 2014, 2019, and 2020, respectively.

Cloud Innovation

According to an IDC report1, China has overtaken the United States as the world’s fastest-growing public cloud market, with a year-over-year growth rate of 49.7%, and the Chinese industry’s worldwide share will exceed 10.5 percent by 2024. To support its burgeoning digital innovation and industrial digital transformation, China’s digital economy requires advanced technology and services, such as Microsoft Azure.

With the addition of the new Azure region, Microsoft will be able to better equip our customers and partners in China and throughout the world to take advantage of China’s digital growth possibilities, including hybrid and multi-cloud deployment, IoT, edge computing, data intelligence, and more.

Azure availability zone, which provides customers with an industry-leading 99.99 percent SLA when VMs are running in two or more availability zones and provides the most comprehensive resiliency strategy to protect against large-scale events with failover to separate regions, will be available in China in 2022, along with the new Azure region. Azure Digital Twins, an IoT capability that allows customers to create “digital twins” of physical objects in the cloud; Azure Arc, which helps users manage data and applications all over hybrid and multi-cloud environments; Flexible Server deployment option for Azure Database for MySQL, which provides maximum control for an organization’s databases, high availability options to help ensure zero data loss, built-in capabilities for cost optimization, and increased product availability. Azure Purview is a single data governance solution for managing and governing data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments.

Cloud for Sustainability

Cloud computing delivers huge efficiency, lowering the global carbon footprint necessary to meet computer demands. We’re seeking breakthrough solutions to incorporate sustainability into data center architecture and operations as the Microsoft cloud grows its computing capacity. The following are some of Microsoft’s most recent advanced development initiatives:

• Reducing water use in datacenters: our evaporatively cooled data centers will reduce the amount of water thanks to a novel approach to datacenter temperature control.
• Waterless cooling alternatives based on liquid immersion cooling research: Microsoft has been the first cloud provider to successfully implement two-phase liquid immersion cooling in a production setting. Liquid cooling’s power and cooling efficiency open up new possibilities for data center rack architecture.
• Designing data centers to support local ecosystems: Microsoft evaluated ecosystem performance in terms of water, air, carbon, climate, biodiversity, and other factors in twelve datacenter regions to refresh and rejuvenate the surrounding area and give regenerating value to the local community and environment.
• Planning to build data centers with a lower carbon footprint: Embodied carbon accounts for emissions from materials and construction procedures throughout a building’s or infrastructure’s whole lifespan. We utilize the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) to select construction materials and minimize embodied carbon in concrete and steel by 30–60%. Some of the ideas will be gradually implemented in the new Azure area in China.

In addition to cloud infrastructure investments, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability is now available for worldwide preview, allowing enterprises to more efficiently track, monitor, and decrease carbon emissions on a road to net-zero. It establishes a common framework for measuring carbon emissions in a consistent, reliable, and accurate manner around the world. Multinational corporations as well as Chinese corporations may now utilize this Azure product to track their sustainability initiatives.

Cloud with Trust and Compliance

Over 200 physical datacenters in over 34 markets make up the Microsoft cloud. Microsoft cloud services are used by over one billion users and 20 million enterprises throughout the world, with 95 percent of Fortune 500 corporations using Microsoft cloud services. Microsoft’s cloud platform fulfills a broad range of industrial and regulatory requirements in China, Europe, the United States, and many other global regions, with over 90 compliance certifications. Microsoft Azure, which is run by 21Vianet in China, has also received a variety of certifications for local compliance. Details can be found in the Trust Center’s compliance documents.

Microsoft Azure was the first multinational public cloud service to be approved for use in China. According to Chinese legal constraints, 21Vianet’s Azure regions in China are physically distinct instances from Microsoft’s global cloud, but they are built on the same cloud technology as Microsoft’s other regions around the world.

Multinational organizations may easily, efficiently, and securely roll out their IT systems and business applications to China or vice versa thanks to the uniform architecture across China and worldwide markets.

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