I am deploying applications to the 6 regions supported by Microsoft Azure, and would like to have a little bit more information about where the files are being served from, as I am trying to correlate HTTP download times from various locations around the world with the location of where they’re being served.
Unfortunately, when I put the host IP addresses through any of the common Geolocation tools, they either are unresolvable or all resolve to the center of the North America!
I can understand why MS don’t want to be too explicit on where http traffic originates from, but an approximate location would be useful – is this possible?
You can find your answer on the Windows Azure Trust Center site: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/privacy/
Asia: East (Hong Kong) and Southeast (Singapore)
Europe: North (Ireland) and West (Netherlands)
United States: North Central (Illinois), South Central (Texas), East (Virginia), and West (California)
It that close enough?
By the way, technically there are three regions (United States, Asia and Europe). Each Data Center within the same region is called a Sub-Region. The two new data centers in the Unites States were announced on April 5th.