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Data Sovereignty Options vs Azure

I'm just learning about Lazura, so forgive me for my naivety. I work for a federal government that will be very insecure to have their apps and data hosted in another country. Can a local company offer Azure services? those. can software developers in the government department build their applications and deploy them in the Azure cloud, ensuring their data stays internally? Or will they have to look for a cloud provider other than Microsoft?

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The data and calculations will be located in the data center you specified. Blocks, tables and queues are also automatically backed up to a paired data center:

  • San Antonio → Chicago
  • Dublin → Amsterdam
  • Hong Kong → Singapore


You can opt out of backing up your data using a cross data center if the data sovereignty issue becomes an issue. After a failure, the data will only reside in the specified datacenter and you will have to handle DR yourself (possibly backing up the data to local storage).

In addition to these 6 data centers, Fujitsu is launching a Windows Azure data center in Japan. For more information see this press release .

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Yes, when you create your Azure service, you can specify in which region (s) it runs.



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I'm not sure if you know this, but the Federal CIO (Vivek Kundra) is really pushing hard for agencies to move to the cloud . You might want to check Info.Apps.Gov for Federal Cloud Initiative recommendations and resources you can and cannot do.

To answer your next question: No. Only MS is the owner of Azure as far as I know. I know Amazon is leaning backwards, but to host government customers and you can control which datacenters are used for this service. MS seems to have a similar capability for a different answer to this question.

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As far as I can tell, these are the only places:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Services_Platform#Datacenters

If they are concerned about data security, they should do business directly with Microsoft and not buy Azure services in the same way a customer would. Microsoft can sort things out depending on the budget (but probably not).

Edit: I'm basically saying Microsoft is not going to arbitrarily do special licensing. This means that you either need a budget big enough to convince MS to build a data center in your country, or you need another way to convince MS to provide Azure services in your country. Also, I hate to sound paranoid, but if you're worried about America seeing your data, you should probably avoid American companies.

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If your country does not have a Windows Azure datacenter, but you still want to use Azure, you need to look at a hybrid cloud model where the data remains resident in a private cloud. However, in-flight data can still be challenging for some organizations, and Azure may not be the best answer in all cases.

If you like, I can talk about it via chat. The company I work for only specializes in these cases and has a single Windows Azure production datacenter that is not owned by Microsoft (nor located in the US). It's probably best not to go into details, but for fear that my response will look like pure spam!

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