As of April 2018, Azure is available in 140 countries, with well over 40 data centers. Microsoft is in the process of setting up new data centers in the UAE, Germany, and South Africa.

If you're someone who ever wondered just how close you are to a Microsoft data center, this fun and interactive 3D tool on the official Azure website can help you to visualize it. You may like ...

A map of Microsoft’s Azure data centers as of March 2018. (GeekWire Screenshot) Availability zones are sections of a region that have independent power, cooling, ...

Azure data centers in Germany and the UK go live. ... Microsoft has a chart that maps commands from the old interface to the new available on GitHub.

After announcing its latest data center region in Austria earlier this month and an expansion of its footprint in Brazil, Microsoft today unveiled its plans to open a new region in Taiwan. This ...

Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are expanding their four-year-old cloud relationship with a deal that will colocate Oracle’s Exadata database-optimized server and Real Application Clusters in Micro ...

An Nvidia H100 GPU requires 700 watts, and with thousands in operation at any time, Azure data centers need to dump a lot of heat. Beyond training, design for inference.