Designing Solutions for newer Azure Regions
Microsoft Azure keeps growing and new regions are being announced and released one after the other, exceeding 60 at this time! New regions usually draw customers that are geographically located near them, with decreased latency being the key factor. Apart from new customers, large organizations usually move some of their workloads to the new regions for the same reasons. When designing a solution that is going to be deployed or extended to a recently released Azure region, you should always make sure that the resources that are part of your solution are available in that particular region. To make the life of the architects easier, Microsoft has created a webpage that provides service availability information and is available here . This page will not only show you the regions that a service is available from, but will also allow you to add all the components of your solution and confirm it's availability as a whole. Let's take for example a solution that comprises of Azure F