What is an Azure region?
According to the docs, an Azure region is defined as a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated low-latency network.
There is also an Azure geography which defines an area of the world containing at least one Azure region.
And lastly, there are Azure paired regions, or regional pairs, which consists of two regions within the same geography.
For a list of region pairs see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/best-practices-availability-paired-regions#azure-regional-pairs.
Get all of the information you need to determine the geography that best fits your needs, from compliance to resiliency feature see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/geographies/#overview.
To get a list of Azure regions, run the Azure CLI script, az account list-locations -o table at https://shell.azure.com.
Below is a list of available regions, as of July 30, 2020.
I have also include an abbreviated version of each region that I use when naming some of my Azure resources, e.g. I use usea instead of eastus.
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Canada Central and Canada East are in a country called Canada, which is North of the United States (mostly) and not in Central America
Good catch! Thank you!
Where are you getting these Short names.
Azure cli doesn’t seem to support them or return them?
az account list-locations -o table
They are just the short names I use when including them in the name of my resources.
It looks like a more official list may be available here, though I have not been able to find a way to pull this information programmatically
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/scripts/geo-code-list
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