The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and backup options for customers running ...

Microsoft is to deploy an Azure cloud Edge region in Perth, Australia. The company said this week that it will make a "significant extension of its global data center footprint to Western Australia ...

Microsoft on Friday announced that its Azure Availability Zones datacenter uptime assurance offering for virtual machine (VM) workloads is now commercially available in two Azure regions. The new ...

Microsoft is making generally available Azure Availability Zones, starting in two regions -- Iowa (US Central) and Paris (France Central). Availability Zones are meant to help protect customers from ...

The Azure Availability Zones uptime assurance offering for hosted workloads is now ready for use by some Azure users, according to a Microsoft announcement on Friday. The new service addition, which ...

Microsoft made a few notable Azure announcements this week, including an Azure Availability Zones expansion, plus ExpressRoute support for the Azure DevOps service. Azure Availability Zones have now ...

Microsoft officials have been talking up over the past year the company's plans to try to provide greater Azure resiliency and capacity. Despite its moves, market analysis firm Gartner dinged ...