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What are Azure Regions and Availability Zones?
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Region: a geographic area containing one or more datacenters. Example: East US, West Europe. Availability Zone: physically separate locations within a region (3+ per region). Each has independent power, cooling, networking. Protects against datacenter failures. Region Pairs: two regions paired for disaster recovery (e.g., East US ↔ West US).