Demand for cloud infrastructure continues to develop, particularly in Europe, as organizations give attention to migrating to the cloud and constructing new options that benefit from AI. Microsoft is increasing our cloud infrastructure to assist this demand and energy extra AI capabilities for purchasers.
This consists of extra infrastructure at new and present datacenters, deploying essentially the most superior AI accelerators from NVIDIA and AMD, alongside our personal customized AI accelerator capabilities, quicker networking and storage options, and optimized computing infrastructure. We’re additionally working to make Microsoft Azure the perfect dwelling for any enterprise workload, whether or not migrating present workloads to the cloud simpler or bringing SAP or Oracle Database Companies into Azure.
Increasing our datacenter areas in Europe
Microsoft has over 60 datacenter areas throughout the globe, greater than some other cloud supplier. Every Azure geography comprises a number of areas and meets particular knowledge residency and compliance necessities. This lets them maintain their business-critical knowledge and apps close by on fault-tolerant, high-capacity networking infrastructure.
European companies are enmeshed within the international economic system, exporting items and providers all over the world. So, it’s necessary they’ve entry to a cloud footprint that’s as international as their buyer base, and which gives the identical means to seamlessly scale overseas as they’ll at dwelling.
We’re investing in a big growth in particular European areas, which can make them our largest datacenter areas on the continent.
These areas are the perfect place for brand new prospects to start their cloud journey, and for present prospects to develop their cloud footprint in Europe—with a number of the greatest value efficiencies and most complete set of providers. They may play a pivotal function in our European AI technique, whereas persevering with to satisfy European knowledge boundary necessities. We have now begun related funding expansions for Italy North, which just lately launched, and for Spain Central, which can launch within the coming months. These areas will rapidly develop to have related dimension and capabilities because the three areas above, over the following 12 months or two.
This infrastructure funding will assist a necessity for environment friendly, scalable, and sustainable AI-specific compute energy and the wants of the non-public and public sector ready to benefit from the newest cloud and AI breakthroughs. It’s crucial that this development and innovation doesn’t come on the expense of the planet. Microsoft’s datacenters are designed to be sustainable and assist our objectives of being carbon damaging, water optimistic, and nil waste. We imagine AI will play a key function in tackling the local weather disaster, and capabilities like Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability can assist prospects quantify carbon influence and measure optimizations.
Whereas these areas provide value financial savings, broad availability of providers, and the potential to attain long-term enterprise development, we’ve got many extra areas throughout Europe that supply a cloud answer for each buyer want. From community latency necessities to catastrophe restoration, compliance and knowledge residency—such because the European Union (EU) Knowledge Boundary, inside which Microsoft has empowered our business prospects to retailer and course of their knowledge securely inside the EU. This checklist will proceed to develop with our subsequent European datacenter areas on the horizon in Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Finland, and Greece.
Selecting the best cloud structure to your group
In designing a method to make use of Microsoft Azure, prospects can select from many Azure areas all over the world. Area choice is a key a part of the general method to cloud adoption. There are some necessary choices our prospects want to think about in selecting the area proper for them.
Azure geographies
Discover the Azure geography that meets your wants.
Establish whenever you’re optimizing for value
There are lots of variables that assist us decide the worth of providers in a area, together with value of land, labor, and vitality. You’ll be able to understand value financial savings whether or not you’re migrating your first workload or fine-tuning complicated deployments. Use the pricing calculator to search out essentially the most cost-effective Azure area to your workloads.
Take a multi-region method
With the extra investments we’re making in Europe, prospects now have extra choices to scale whereas navigating market modifications to their enterprise. Our prospects can contemplate a multi-region structure to assist optimize workloads, cut back prices, and assist scale their enterprise, whereas nonetheless assembly European knowledge compliance and regulatory necessities.
Perceive your regulatory and compliance necessities
Organizations with particular knowledge residency necessities, or different regulatory or compliance wants can select the area(s) that assist them meet these necessities. Microsoft’s dedication to our European Union (EU) and European Free Commerce Affiliation (EFTA) prospects, assist them course of and retailer buyer knowledge of their area.
Don’t reinvent the wheel
Leverage the Cloud Adoption Framework to attain your cloud adoption objectives. It gives greatest practices, documentation, and instruments that allow you to create and implement enterprise and know-how methods for the cloud.
Observe the Properly Architected Framework to optimize a person workload. It gives steerage for answer architects to construct dependable, safe, and performant workloads that maximize the worth of funding in Azure infrastructure.
Supporting our prospects
As organizations and governments internationally are utilizing the cloud to digitally remodel and drive innovation, at Microsoft we stay dedicated to constructing a cloud infrastructure that helps the success of consumers within the period of AI. Be taught extra about our Europe datacenter areas.