Azure Sovereign Regions

Azure Sovereign Regions

  • Separate account to access these regions

  • For US government agencies - federal, state and local (does not run on same hardware as general pubilcs portal)

  • Department of Defense has its own region too

  • Isolated data centers separated from the Azure public cloud

  • Meets standards specific to government

  • portal.azure.us

  • Different URLs for connecting to storage, functions, etc...

Azure China

  • Independent company

  • Data remains in China

  • Separate accounts

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