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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]	VPN Gateway	Available for PaaS 2.0 Provisioning	Azure App Service Availability Zones	Azure Defender Availability	Application Insights	Log Analytics	SolrCloud
United States	East US	East US	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	East US 2	East US 2	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	Central US	Central US	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	North Central US	North Central US	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	South Central US	South Central US	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	West Central US	West Central US	✓ [4]	-	✓	-	✓	✓
United States	West US	West US	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	West US 2	West US 2	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	West US 3	West US 3	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	✓
Azure Government	US Gov Virginia	US Gov Virginia	-	✓	-	✓	✓	-
Azure Government	US Gov Iowa	US Gov Iowa	-	-	-	-	-	-
Azure Government	US Gov Arizona	US Gov Arizona	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Azure Government	US Gov Texas	US Gov Texas	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Azure Government	US DOD East	US DOD East	-	-	-	-	-	-
Azure Government	US DOD Central	US DOD Central	-	-	-	-	-	-
Canada	Canada East	Canada East	✓ [4]	-	✓	-	✓	-
Canada	Canada Central	Canada Central	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Brazil	Brazil South [5]	Brazil South [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Europe	North Europe (Ireland)	North Europe (Ireland)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Europe	West Europe Netherlands)	West Europe Netherlands)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Europe	Norway East [5]	Norway East [5]	-	✓	-	✓	✓	✓
Europe	Switzerland North [5]	Switzerland North [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	-
Europe	Switzerland West	Switzerland West	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-
Germany	Germany West Central	Germany West Central	-	✓	-	✓	✓	-
Germany	Germany North	Germany North	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
United Kingdom	UK West	UK West	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
United Kingdom	UK South	UK South	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
France	France Central	France Central	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
France	France South	France South	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	-
Asia Pacific	Southeast Asia (Singapore)	Southeast Asia (Singapore)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Asia Pacific	East Asia (Hong Kong)	East Asia (Hong Kong)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Asia	China East	China East	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Asia	China East2	China East2	-	-	-	✓	✓	-
Asia	China North	China North	-	-	-	-	-	-
Asia	China North 2	China North 2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Australia	Australia East	Australia East	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Australia	Australia Southeast	Australia Southeast	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Australia	Australia Central	Australia Central	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Australia	Australia Central 2	Australia Central 2	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
India	Central India	Central India	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
India	West India	West India	-	-	✓	-	✓	✓
India	South India	South India	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Japan	Japan East	Japan East	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Japan	Japan West	Japan West	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Korea	Korea Central [5]	Korea Central [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Korea	Korea South	Korea South	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-
United Arab Emirates	UAE North	UAE North	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United Arab Emirates	UAE Central	UAE Central	✓ [4]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
Qatar	Qatar Central [1]	Qatar Central	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
South Africa	South Africa North [5]	South Africa North [5]	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
South Africa	South Africa West	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 stand-alone region and as such there is no Microsoft Pair Region support.
[2] If the Provisioning is restricted in this region 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.

Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard – PaaS 2.0: Azure Region compatibility table

Description

Alternatives For The Default PaaS Services

Notes

Alternatives For The Default PaaS Services