Pune (P&V News Service) : Microsoft India announced the launch of Availability Zones in its Central India datacenter region, providing additional resilience options for customers\u2019 cloud applications. Azure Availability Zones allow businesses to spread their infrastructure and applications across dispersed datacenters, delivering additional protection and isolation from localized failures, which can range from mechanical or electrical issues, structure fires or flooding, or any unforeseen disaster.\u00a0They also provide\u00a0access to mission-critical application, data, and services to every Azure customer to support their most important workloads and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Azure Availability Zones are physically and logically separated datacenters with their own independent power source, network, and cooling. If one becomes unavailable, the others ensure resiliency. They provide the scale, business continuity, and the security businesses need to run their most important applications in the cloud. The new Azure Availability Zones in Pune ensures<\/strong> uptime of up to 99.99%, empowering Microsoft customers in India to spread their infrastructure and applications across the data centers’ locations, increasing security and accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commenting on the announcement, Rajiv Sodhi, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft India, said,\u201c<\/strong>Microsoft\u2019s cloud infrastructurecomprises more than 60 announced datacenter regions around the world \u2013 more than any other cloud provider \u2013and has been essential in connecting people, businesses, and governments while running mission-critical applications. We are continually upgrading the infrastructure in India to provide support for customers building and operating applications and workloads. From facilitating architectures for modern cloud applications, to meeting data residency requirements, the new Azure Availability Zones in Central India will bring resilience to businesses, as they accelerate digital transformation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n