New Azure region coming to China in 2022 | Azure Blog and Updates

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In an effort to meet the China market’s rising wants for world public cloud providers, Microsoft is planning to carry a brand new Azure Area to North China in 2022 by its native working associate, 21Vianet. This enlargement is anticipated to successfully double the capability of Microsoft’s clever cloud portfolio in China within the coming years, which incorporates Azure, Microsoft Workplace 365, Dynamics 365, and Energy Platform operated by 21Vianet, to energy innovation and digital transformation for builders, companions, and prospects in China and all over the world.

In response to the white paper China Cloud Trade Growth¹, the cloud market in China is anticipated to achieve 300 Billion RMB (est. $46 Billion) in 2023. In response to the pandemic, 63 % of organizations in China are leveraging cloud-related improvements to speed up digitization of their merchandise, funds, e-commerce, automation, and extra.

“This unveils a giant alternative. Microsoft Cloud operated by 21Vianet was the primary worldwide public cloud compliantly launched in China by an area working associate. Our clever, reliable, and impartial cloud platform has been empowering lots of of 1000’s of builders, companions, and prospects from each China and the world to realize extra with technical innovation and enterprise transformation. The upcoming area will reinforce the capabilities to assist additional nurture native skills, stimulate native innovation, develop native know-how ecosystems, and empower companies in a variety of industries to realize extra.” —Alain Crozier, Chairman and Chief Government Officer of Microsoft Higher China Area (GCR)

The Microsoft Cloud platform delivers clever, scalable, safe, compliant, and reliable cloud providers, which incorporates Microsoft Azure, an ever-expanding set of cloud providers that provides computing, networking, databases, analytics, AI, and IoT providers; Microsoft Workplace 365, the world’s productiveness cloud that delivers best-of-breed productiveness apps built-in by cloud providers, delivered as a part of an open platform for enterprise processes; Dynamics 365 and Energy Platform, the subsequent era of clever enterprise purposes that allow organizations to develop, evolve, and rework to fulfill the wants of shoppers.

In China, Microsoft has been collaborating with 21Vianet to run all these important cloud providers since 2014. Introduced in 2012, and formally launched in March 2014 with two preliminary areas, Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet was the primary worldwide public cloud service to change into typically out there within the China market. Following Azure, Microsoft Workplace 365, Dynamics 365, and Energy Platform operated by 21Vianet successively launched in China in 2014, 2019, and 2020.

With over 90 compliance certifications globally, Microsoft’s cloud platform meets a broad vary of trade and regulatory requirements in China, Europe, the US, and in lots of different world markets. In accordance with Chinese language regulatory necessities, Azure areas operated by 21Vianet in China are bodily separated situations from Microsoft’s world cloud however are constructed on the identical cloud technical base as its world friends. The constant structure throughout China and world markets makes it simple, environment friendly, and safe for multinational corporations to transplant their IT techniques and enterprise purposes to China or vice versa.