There are no data transfer charges between Azure services located in the same region. Microsoft plans to start billing for Azure Availability Zone data transfers on July 1, 2018.

Azure’s zones will provide “an industry-leading 99.99% SLA (service-level agreement) when virtual machines are running in two Availability Zones in the same region,” the company said in a ...

That’s one of the reasons why Azure today offers more regions than any of its competitors, with 38 generally available regions and 12 announced ones.

"Availability Zones protect from datacenter-level failures and software update failures." The pricing for Azure Availability Zones is based on the bandwidth used, namely for both inbound and outbound ...

Today two Azure regions, Europe (France Central) and the United States (US Central), offer availability zones, and three more regions have them in preview: East US 2, West Europe, and Southeast Asia.

As part of Microsoft’s continuous efforts to enhance our cloud offerings, we are pleased to announce that we have expanded our Southeast Asia Azure Region in Singapore. As part of this expansion, ...

Microsoft announced Azure Availability Zones for datacenter-failure protection in March 2018, starting with US Central and France Central. Availability Zones are located inside Azure regions and ...

Microsoft has removed fees for transferring data between different availability zones within the same cloud region. “We are announcing that Azure will not charge for the data transfer across ...

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 defines an Azure Availability Zone as "an isolated location inside of an Azure region" that has "its own independent power source, network and cooling." Each Azure Availability Zone ...

Today two Azure regions, Europe (France Central) and the United States (US Central), offer availability zones, and three more regions have them in preview: East US 2, West Europe, and Southeast Asia.