Azure nonregional services

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  • 04/14/2025

Nonregional Azure services are services that you don't deploy into a specific Azure region. This article explains the difference between global and geographic nonregional services, and provides a list of nonregional services that indicates whether each is a global or geographic service.

Types of nonregional services

There are two types of nonregional services:

  • Global services are deployed to many Azure regions worldwide. If there's a regional failure, an instance in another region can continue to operate. With global services, you don't need to specifically design for region-wide outages, because these services are resilient to regional failures.

  • Geographic services are deployed to a geographic area, and not a specific Azure region. Within that geographic area, one or more Azure regions might be used to serve client requests. To understand the geographic areas, and learn how to design a resilient solution with a geographic service, see the documentation for that service.

Generally, most nonregional services are either global or geographic, but not both. For example, Azure Front Door a global service, while Azure DevOps is a geographic service. However, Microsoft Entra ID is a service that can be either global or geographic, depending on how you configure it.

Data residency for nonregional services

For most nonregional services that store customer data, you can select a specific region for data storage. To learn more, see Data residency in Azure.

Regionally dependent service components

When you use a nonregional service, you don't choose a specific Azure region for the service itself. However, you might need to choose a region for dependent components that you use with the service. For example, if you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), which is a nonregional service, you can choose the Azure region where your host pool (virtual machines) resides.

List of nonregional services

Microsoft publishes a a list of services, which includes nonregional services. The table below also contains the list of nonregional services, but specifies whether each service is global or geographic, and provides additional notes about data residency and configuration.

Product Global Geographic Notes
Azure AD B2C Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Advisor Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure AI Bot Service Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Blueprints Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Content Delivery Network Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure DevOps Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure DNS Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Front Door Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Information Protection Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Lighthouse Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure management groups Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Maps Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Migrate Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Peering Service Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Performance Diagnostics Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Policy Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure portal Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Resource Graph Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Stack Edge Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Static Web Apps Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure subscriptions Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Traffic Manager Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Azure Virtual Desktop Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label. Some data is stored in a geographic area. Host pools are located in a specific region.
Microsoft Cost Management Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Microsoft Defender for Identity Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Microsoft Defender for IoT Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Microsoft Entra ID Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label. Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label. Select location during Microsoft Entra tenant creation, which can be geographic or worldwide. See Microsoft Entra ID and data residency.
Microsoft Graph Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Microsoft Intune Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.
Microsoft Sentinel Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label.

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