Hi I am trying to create an azure server in china from the united kingdom. All I want to know if this is possible. I have read that you need to create the server from the Azure China Site?
I don't speak chinese which means I have to tanslate every webpage I go onto which is a bit annoying and some text isnt translated.
When starting a trial the first step is to add a phone number and without it you cant progress, but since I dont have a chinese phone number I am unable to get past this. This is why I am asking whether or not it is possible to host a chinese server from te UK.
When Im on the UK/American Azure Site and I need to select the county I am from the information text tells me this
"Choose the primary country or region where you or your organization will use Microsoft Azure. You cannot change this country later. This setting determines the data center closest to you."
Does this mean if I choose United Kingdom I will never be able to host a server in china?
Thanks for any help it is much appreciated
This is why I am asking whether or not it is possible to host a
chinese server from te UK.
No. You can't host a server in China Data Center (DC) from UK using your UK Azure Subscription. In order to make use of China DC so that you can host resources there, you would need to have an Azure Subscription in China. Your regular Azure Subscription does not give you access to that DC. This is same as access to Azure US Government DCs.
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I work for a company based in germany and we already released an "assistant-app" but because of some EU Data-Security restrictions and such we have to store the data from the assistant app somewhere in europe.
Is it possible to create (for example) a new aog project and specify that it has to be EU hosted?
Does anyone have another idea?
The german "Datenschutzgrundverordnung" is really "special" ;)
Thanks in advance!!
You can contact Google's partner team for more details and try the enterprise account. For storing data in the database, you could use GCP's cloud data store and set it for the EU region. Firebase on the other side will make copies around the world as per my knowledge so that you should avoid.
Reach out to Dialogflow and ActionOnGoogle teams for the exact solution.
When creating a VM on azure portal, the location option does not list South Brazil, but the Azure pricing page lists South Brazil prices.
I am trying to create a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter VM.
Is South Brazil available? What do I have to do to enable this location?
Thank you.
The default Regions that are available to a subscription are based on availability of resources at the time and whether the Region is 'generally available'; for example, originally, Brazil South was only available to Paid Subscriptions (e.g. not trial, BizSpark, MSDN credits etc).
If there is a Region that is missing from your Subscription, you can contact Billing Support (which is included free with your subscription), and open a ticket requesting access to that Region.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/
Or, you can do so through the Azure Portal.
I have performed this myself, as my two Subscriptions (BizSpark, MSDN) were both created in Brazil, but neither included access to the Brazil South Region.
Billing Support managed the process of gaining access to Brazil South for my Subscriptions - they will open an internal ticket with Capacity Planning, who will perform the actual resolution. The process is zero cost.
Response time in my case was less than one hour from requesting assistance from Billing Support, to having the ticket created with Capacity Planning. The Capacity Planning department subsequently enabled Brazil South for my subscriptions within one business day.
NOTE: It should be borne in mind that not all services are available in all Regions; for example products that are in beta such as Premium Storage, the latest Tiers of Virtual Machines, etc, are restricted to one or two Regions before they become generally available. Brazil South is one of the newer Regions, and therefore is slightly behind in terms of services that are available.
These are the locations that I have available for Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (I added the bold to Brazil South):
LOCATIONS
East Asia;Southeast Asia;Australia East;Australia Southeast;Brazil South;North Europe;West Europe;Japan East;Japan West;Central US;East US;East US 2;North Central US;South Central US;West US
The option to choose Brazil South occurs on the 4th page of the VM setup, assuming you choose Create from a Gallery Image. Steps are outlined below:
From Portal Homepage, Click NEW (Bottom Right)
Choose > Compute > Virtual Machine > From Gallery
note: Brazil South may also be available in the Quick Create option as well as from Gallery, but Gallery gives more options for the setup.
From Page One Choose the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Image (top of the list for me). Click the next arrow bottom right.
From Page 2, enter size, name, Tier, and Administrative user data, click next arrow bottom right.
From Page 3, you can find the Regions in the dropdown list titled "REGION/AFFINITY GROUP/VIRTUAL NETWORK". Choose Brazil South (it is available for me).
David
We want to display the region to which users are being directed by Azure Traffic Manager in our MVC 4 application (we have cloud services set up in Europe, Asia, and the US). We're thinking of handling this similarly to the way we display the version number in the footer (so it would say something like Version: 1.5.7 Region: East US). I've heard this can be done but I have no idea how. Any help?
Your hosted service in Europe would say "Region: Europe" for every single request that comes to it. Similarly, your hosted service in Asia would say "Region: Asia" for every single request that it receives. When WATM sends a user to the Europe service then the user would see "Region: Europe".
The Cloud Cover Episode 46 shows a sample of this. http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-46-Windows-Azure-Traffic-Manager
I am deploying applications to the 6 regions supported by Microsoft Azure, and would like to have a little bit more information about where the files are being served from, as I am trying to correlate HTTP download times from various locations around the world with the location of where they're being served.
Unfortunately, when I put the host IP addresses through any of the common Geolocation tools, they either are unresolvable or all resolve to the center of the North America!
I can understand why MS don't want to be too explicit on where http traffic originates from, but an approximate location would be useful - is this possible?
You can find your answer on the Windows Azure Trust Center site: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/privacy/
Asia: East (Hong Kong) and Southeast (Singapore)
Europe: North (Ireland) and West (Netherlands)
United States: North Central (Illinois), South Central (Texas), East (Virginia), and West (California)
It that close enough?
By the way, technically there are three regions (United States, Asia and Europe). Each Data Center within the same region is called a Sub-Region. The two new data centers in the Unites States were announced on April 5th.
It's actually very easy to get the approximate location based on the IP. Simply compare the IP of your hosted service (resolve yourapp.cloudapp.net) with the official Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges.
Latest Blogpost related to the ip-ranges: http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/08/14/windows-azure-datacenter-ip-ranges.aspx as the other ms-link seems to be dead...
I'm just learning about Azure so forgive me for my naivety. I work for a federal government that would be very hesitant to have their applications and data hosted in another country. Could a local company offer "Azure" services? i.e. could software developers in a government department build their applications and deploy them to the Azure cloud, ensuring that their data stays within the country? Or would they have to look at a non-Microsoft cloud provider?
Data and Compute will reside in the datacenter you specify. Blobs, Tables and Queues are also backed up automatically to a paired data center:
San Antonio <--> Chicago
Dublin <--> Amsterdam
Hong Kong <--> Singapore
You can opt-out of cross-datacenter data backup if data sovereignty becomes an issue. Once opted-out, data would only be in the specified data center, and you'd need to handle DR on your own (by possibly backing up data to on-premises storage).
Aside from those 6 datacenters, Fujitsu runs a Windows Azure data center in Japan. See this press release for more info.
Yes, when you create your Azure service you can specify what region (of the country) it runs in.
I'm not sure if you know this, but the Federal CIO (Vivek Kundra) is really pushing hard for Agencies to move to the cloud. You might want to check out Info.Apps.Gov for guidelines on the Federal Cloud initiative and resources for what you can and can't do.
To answer your immediate question: No. Only MS hosts Azure to my knowledge. I do know that Amazon is bending over backwards however to accommodate Government clients and you can control which datacenters are used on that service. MS appears to have a similar capability per the other answer to this question.
As far as I can tell, these are the only locations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Services_Platform#Datacenters
If they're that concerned about data security though, they should deal directly with Microsoft, not buy Azure services that same way a client usually would. Microsoft may be able to arrange something depending on budget (but probably not).
Edit: What I'm basically saying is, Microsoft is not going to arbitrarily do special licensing. Meaning you either need a large enough budget to convince MS to build a data center in your country, or you need some other way of convincing MS to allow Azure services hosted in your country. Also, I hate to sound paranoid, but if you're worried about America seeing your data, you likely should avoid Ameican companies.
If there isn't a Windows Azure Data Centre in the relevant country, but you still want to use Azure, you'll need to look at a hybrid cloud model where data remains resident in a private cloud. However, in-flight data can still present complications for some organisations and Azure may not be the right answer in all cases.
If you like, I can talk about it some more using Chat. The company I work for specialises in just these cases and has the only production Windows Azure data centre that isn't owned by Microsoft (and isn't in the US). Probably best not go into further specifics here, though, for fear of my answer looking like pure spam!