I'm creating Azure web site. My country landed between Europe and Asia. Azure region option include 5 region (East Asia, West Europe, North europe, West US, East US).
How to choose which is quick from my country?
It all depends on the routing to the Windows Azure datacenters. Have you tried testing the download speed, pings, ... to the Europe and Asia datacenters?
Try a tool like wget or even Visual Studio. With Visual Studio (I think you'll need the Ultimate) you can create load tests which can perform different actions on your Web Site (like downloading files, loading pages, ...). Run this test on Web Sites deployed in different datacenters to get a better view about performance from your country (and you can use this information to choose where you want to deploy your Web Site).
Note that performance can still vary ISPs. If performance is key for your application consider using Cloud Services together with the Windows Azure Traffic Manager (configured with performance load balancing). The Traffic Manager can redirect your user to the closest datacenter in terms of performance.
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Really puzzled why I am not seeing all locations - only 4 - US West, US East, Japan West and Japan East in my trial subscription. Is there any filtering I inadvertently setup?
Any pointers would be really helpful
Shas
I am giving many workshops for Azure and I see this behavior a lot for Azure Passes (also kind of trial accounts) but have not seen this for Azure Trials.
I noticed that I have more location options in the new Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and less in the old management portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com).
Also to consider, not all services are available at all locations. But the standard services like VMs or storage should be available everywhere. You can check via the service overview whether your desired service is available.
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've built my application in .net and SQL Server 2008.
Having looking for a hosting solution I stumbled upon windows azure.
I saw that currently its only available in the US.
Can I use the service if I live outside of the US?
If I upload my website up there and people try entering, will people from outside of the US be blocked?
Sorry for posting an unrelated program question. I am not receiving an answer anywhere else, and I can see that there are several questions regarding azure which are not program related here.
Windows Azure has a data center hosted in northern europe. Your users won't be blocked no matter where it is hosted. See this link for status and locations.
We have an Azure hosted application in the US. One of our developers is in Pakistan. He has no issues developing against our Azure Table Storage there or using the application. Also, he is impressed with the overall speed of the application compared to other web applications he uses which are hosted locally and in the US.
Obviously an app hosted in the same region would be quicker all things being equal. However, we have been really happy with the "quality" of the service from Azure and overall it probably offers better performance even outside the region than a poorly managed shared hosting environment. Also, you can change the region where your Azure app is hosted. So, over time, as new regions are added you can migrate your app to that region.
Nope it won't be blocked. But, it would be more sluggish due to latency compared to the locally hosted applications. Also, if you are in EU you might want to check the data protection act. It is illegal to store some private data concerning EU citizens on the US based servers.