Microsoft Azure services are available in 34 regions around the globe and more regions are continuously planned to be supported. The more regions, the more it allows customers to achieve better performance with cost optimization. It also helps in scenarios where data location is legally restricted.
Azure is generally available in 34 regions and 12 geos around the globe. It has already announced plans for six additional regions and two additional geos. For customers, it is extremely important to have legal compliance in the context of a storage location of their data. There are two different possibilities/authorities in this scenario:
The customer may copy, move, or access data from any location
Microsoft may replicate data in other regions of the same geo for high availability: