Microsoft helps cloud infrastructure demand in Europe

Demand for cloud infrastructure continues to develop, particularly in Europe, as organizations deal with migrating to the cloud and constructing new options that make the most of AI. Microsoft is increasing our cloud infrastructure to help this demand and energy extra AI capabilities for patrons.

This consists of extra infrastructure at new and current datacenters, deploying probably 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 most effective residence for any enterprise workload, whether or not migrating current workloads to the cloud simpler or bringing SAP or Oracle Database Providers into Azure.

Increasing our datacenter areas in Europe

Microsoft has over 60 datacenter areas throughout the globe, greater than another cloud supplier. Every Azure geography accommodates 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 world economic system, exporting items and companies world wide. So, it’s vital they’ve entry to a cloud footprint that’s as world as their buyer base, and which offers the identical potential to seamlessly scale overseas as they’ll at residence.

We’re investing in a major growth in particular European areas, which is able to make them our largest datacenter areas on the continent.

These areas are the most effective place for brand spanking new prospects to start their cloud journey, and for current prospects to develop their cloud footprint in Europe—with a number of the greatest price efficiencies and most complete set of companies. They may play a pivotal position in our European AI technique, whereas persevering with to fulfill European knowledge boundary necessities. We’ve begun related funding expansions for Italy North, which not too long ago launched, and for Spain Central, which is able to launch within the coming months. These areas will shortly develop to have related dimension and capabilities because the three areas above, over the following yr 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 make the most of the newest cloud and AI breakthroughs. It’s vital that this progress and innovation doesn’t come on the expense of the planet. Microsoft’s datacenters are designed to be sustainable and help our targets of being carbon detrimental, water constructive, and 0 waste. We imagine AI will play a key position in tackling the local weather disaster, and capabilities like Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability may also help prospects quantify carbon affect and measure optimizations.

Whereas these areas supply price financial savings, broad availability of companies, and the potential to attain long-term enterprise progress, we now have many extra areas throughout Europe that supply a cloud resolution 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 industrial prospects to retailer and course of their knowledge securely inside the EU. This record will proceed to develop with our subsequent European datacenter areas on the horizon in Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Finland, and Greece.

Choosing the proper cloud structure in your group

In designing a technique to make use of Microsoft Azure, prospects can select from many Azure areas world wide. Area choice is a key a part of the general method to cloud adoption. There are some vital 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 while you’re optimizing for price

There are various variables that assist us decide the value of companies in a area, together with price of land, labor, and vitality. You possibly can understand price financial savings whether or not you’re migrating your first workload or fine-tuning complicated deployments. Use the pricing calculator to search out probably the most cost-effective Azure area in 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 adjustments to their enterprise. Our prospects can think about a multi-region structure to assist optimize workloads, scale 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 targets. It offers greatest practices, documentation, and instruments that allow you to create and implement enterprise and expertise methods for the cloud.

Observe the Effectively Architected Framework to optimize a person workload. It offers steering for resolution 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 rework and drive innovation, at Microsoft we stay dedicated to constructing a cloud infrastructure that helps the success of shoppers within the period of AI. Be taught extra about our Europe datacenter areas.