Azure Availability Zones is generally available in German-speaking Switzerland

Please find the official announcementhere —including an explanation of the availability zones. Microsoft has made a massive investment in Switzerland and added new, physically separate data DataCenter s in the greater Zurich area. To protect against failures at a single data center, the new locations/zones provide independent power, cooling, fire protection, and networking infrastructure. Use cases include high-availability workloads with the highest demand for resilience and availability, as well as applications requiring low latency due to the round-trip time of less than 2 milliseconds betweenavailability zones.

With Azure, Microsoft 365, including MS-Teams, Dynamics 365 , and Power Platform in Swiss data centers, large enterprises, SMEs, independent software vendors, and startups, as well as the public sector, are able to use a cloud secure and highly available infrastructure within Switzerland’s national borders. cloud Microsoft in Switzerland is the only cloud local hyperscale provider to offer such a broad range of integrated services with numerous underlying synergies. Microsoft started with fewer than 50 services Azure available locally in August 2019, and now offers more than 200. You can find an overview at: https://aka.ms/Azure-Switzerland Another unique differentiator is the local configuration with the geo-redundant Switzerland West region. It offers regulated customers an additional option for Swiss data residency with in-country disaster recovery approximately 200 km from the greater Zurich area.