Azure regions

- [Instructor] In order for us to understand … how to design our own applications in Azure, … it may be helpful to understand … how the Microsoft Azure global network is, itself, designed. … An understanding of Azure's own global network of servers … will help us when we need to sit down … and design our own applications for resilience, … availability, scalability, and backup recovery. … If your application is important, … you'll want to ensure that it's protected … from certain predictable, yet rare, … regional disastrous events such as floods, … power grid outages, and general, regional, internet outages. … And if you deploy your resources without thought … to how Azure, itself, will position them, … you might find that a critical component of your application … is not, in fact, protected from downtime, … like you thought it was. … The key to availability is to architect your system … with availability in mind. … You don't get a highly available system … just by deploying the code to the cloud, …