The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and backup options for customers running ...

In its early days, Microsoft Azure took a slightly different approach and focus on regions without availability zones, arguing that geographic expansion was more important than offering zones.

Microsoft has begun adding Availability Zones to its Azure cloud platform, providing customers with an additional tool to make sure their applications stay operational.

Microsoft Corp. last week switched on the first availability zones for its Azure cloud platform, providing new backup and reliability options for customers running workloads in its data centers in ...

Microsoft is beginning to make available Azure Availability Zones, which are meant to provide more resiliency in their cloud operations.

Microsoft is growing its Azure Availability Zone footprint significantly in this calendar year and beyond to provide broader datacenter failure protection.

Microsoft Corp. today said that it will deploy availability zones in all the regions where it maintains cloud data centers to provide Azure customers with increased protection against outages. The ...

Microsoft has announced the launch of availability zones in Azure, giving customers more options if a localised data centre fault occurs – and catching up with its competitors in the process. The move ...

All big clouds, that is, except for Azure, which is only launching its availability zones feature into general availability today after first announcing a beta last September.

By building application architecture using a combination of Availability Zones with Azure region pairs, customers can synchronously replicate applications and data using Availability Zones within an ...