Availability Zones Add Resiliency in South Central US Datacenter

Announcement #2 in What’s New From Microsoft in January 2021

Every month Microsoft announces hundreds of new features, capabilities, and services across the Microsoft cloud platforms – Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365. We boil it down to what is most important and share them via our monthly newsletter.  Here is #2 for January of 2021.

Availability Zones Add Resiliency in South Central US Datacenter

While Azure regions were designed from the beginning with high availability and protection using mirrored datacenters, redundant services, and protection down to the hardware, Microsoft has been expanding the protection and the options for how customers run workloads using Availability Zones (AZ). AZs each offer independent power, Internet, and supporting systems. These AZs are now available in the South Central US region and supporting services in Azure can now use these new capabilities. Read More +