Selecting the Right Region for Your Workload
Apply decision criteria — data residency, service availability, and cost — to choose an optimal Azure region for a given scenario.
Region Selection Is an Architecture Decision
Picking a region is a real architecture decision, not just geography — it shapes performance, compliance, cost, and DR. Decide early; moving later is hard and costly.
Criterion 1: Proximity to Users
The most intuitive criterion is proximity to users. Same-geography compute means lower round-trip time and a snappier app. German users? Deploy in West Europe, not East US.
All lessons in this course
- Azure Regions and Region Pairs
- Availability Zones
- Azure Data Centres and Edge Locations
- Selecting the Right Region for Your Workload