Description

The following table summarizes all the Azure Regions and describes whether they have the default PaaS 2.0 services required by Sitecore XM/XP when running in Azure.

Services available in all regions:

• Web Apps
• Web Apps – Availability Zones *
• Azure SQL
• Redis Cache
• App Gateway
• Virtual Network
• VNET Gateway
• KeyVault
• Azure CDN

* Sitecore Managed Cloud PaaS 2.0 includes the provision of Availability Zones on the Content Delivery Nodes (CD) by default. However, not all Microsoft Regions benefit from this service in all Azure Regions. Microsoft maintains the list of supported Azure Regions with Available Zones here.

Services with limited availability:

Area	Region [2]	Available for PaaS 2.0 Provisioning	Azure App Service Availability Zones	VPN Gateway  (VPNGW1AZ)	Azure Defender Availability	Application Insights	Log Analytics	SolrCloud
United States	East US	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	East US 2	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	Central US	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	North Central US	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	South Central US	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	West Central US	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	-	✓	✓
United States	West US	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	West US 2	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	West US 3	✓	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	✓
Azure Government	US Gov Virginia	-	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	-
Azure Government	US Gov Iowa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Azure Government	US Gov Arizona	-	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Azure Government	US Gov Texas	-	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Azure Government	US DOD East	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Azure Government	US DOD Central	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Canada	Canada East	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	-	✓	-
Canada	Canada Central	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Brazil	Brazil South  [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Europe	North Europe (Ireland)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Europe	West Europe Netherlands)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Europe	Norway East  [5]	-	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	✓
Europe	Switzerland North  [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	-
Europe	Switzerland West	-	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-
Germany	Germany West Central	-	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	-
Germany	Germany North	-	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
United Kingdom	UK West	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
United Kingdom	UK South	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
France	France Central	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
France	France South	✓   [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-
Asia Pacific	Southeast Asia (Singapore)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Asia Pacific	East Asia (Hong Kong)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Asia	China East	-	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Asia	China East2	-	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Asia	China North	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Asia	China North 2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Australia	Australia East	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Australia	Australia Southeast	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Australia	Australia Central	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Australia	Australia Central 2	-	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
India	Central India	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
India	West India	-	-	-	✓	-	✓	✓
India	South India	✓  [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Japan	Japan East	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Japan	Japan West	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Korea	Korea Central [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Korea	Korea South	-	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-
United Arab Emirates	UAE North	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United Arab Emirates	UAE Central	✓ [4]	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Qatar	Qatar Central  [1]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
South Africa	South Africa North [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
South Africa	South Africa West	-	-	-	-	✓	✓	-

Legend: "-" – not available; "✓" – available

 

Alternatives For The Default PaaS Services

Not all PaaS services are available in all regions, but you can swap out any of the default PaaS services for alternative SKUs available within your preferred Azure Region.

• Web Apps:
  • Alternative Azure App Service SKUs should be selected where the Sitecore recommended Azure App Service SKU is not available within your desired Azure Region.
• Application Insights:
  • Do not rule out the use of Application Insights just because it is not listed in your desired data center. The region you choose for Application Insights is the end storage location for your Sitecore telemetry. Choosing a region for Application Insights that is different from the rest of your deployment does not cause performance issues or result in additional data transfer costs.
  • For logging, an alternate approach is to use log4Net options, such as a database or Azure Table/Blob storage.
  • Alternatively, you can log on to Log Analytics.

Notes

• Full details on all Azure Regions and their services can be found at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions.
• [1] Note that this is a standalone region and as such there is no Microsoft Pair Region support.
• [2] If the Provisioning is restricted in this region an error occurs, choose a different region.
• [3] Whilst Azure Search is available for use with Sitecore ARM templates, the use of Azure Search is not supported in combination with Sitecore Managed Cloud – PaaS 2.0 (v10.3.1 and later).
• [4] Region does not support Azure Availability Zones. PaaS 2.0 includes Azure Availability Zones for Content Delivery Nodes, therefore if you choose to deploy to this region, Azure Availability Zones will not be enabled on your Content Delivery Nodes – see MSFT Documentation for further details - here.
• [5] Future Region for Sitecore Managed Cloud. Check with your aligned Sitecore contacts for further details relating to the availability of this region.