Global Infrastructure Flashcards
What is a region?
A grouping of multiple datacenters (Availability Zones)
What is Geography?
A discreet market of two or more regions that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries
A region is paired with another region, how many miles away?
300 miles
What is a Recommended Region?
A region that provides the broadest range of service capabilities.
What is an Alternate Region?
A region that extends Azure’s footprint within a data residency boundary where a recommended region also exists.
Why does Azure have specialized regions?
To meet compliance or legal reasons.
What is a datacenter?
A secured building that contains hundred of thousands of computers.
True or False, every region has support for Availability Zones.
False
What is a Fault Domain?
A logical grouping of hardware to avoid a single point of failure within an Az.