{"id":6545,"date":"2016-09-07T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:14:42","slug":"microsofts-uk-datacentres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/microsofts-uk-datacentres-what-you-need-to-know.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s UK datacentres: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/microsoft-azure-and-office-365-now-available-from-united-kingdom-datacenters\/\">the UK woke up to an announcement from Microsoft that the UK datacentres for Azure and Office 365 are generally available<\/a>, making Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/2016\/09\/06\/not-publish-microsoft-becomes-first-company-open-data-centres-uk\/\">the first global provider to deliver a complete cloud (Iaas, PaaS and SaaS) from UK data centres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MSFT first global provider to deliver complete <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cloud?src=hash\">#cloud<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UKdatacentres?src=hash\">#UKdatacentres<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Azure?src=hash\">#Azure<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Office365?src=hash\">#Office365<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xkiLpB0XX6\">https:\/\/t.co\/xkiLpB0XX6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QNODlBLS2e\">pic.twitter.com\/QNODlBLS2e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Microsoft Business (@MSFTBusinessUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSFTBusinessUK\/status\/773429349118779392\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two new Azure regions in the UK:\n<ul>\n<li>UK West (Cardiff)<\/li>\n<li>UK South (London)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Office 365 services from UK datacentres in Durham and London.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/2016\/09\/06\/not-publish-microsoft-becomes-first-company-open-data-centres-uk\/\">Dynamics CRM online will be offered from the UK in the first half of 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That Azure location information was taken from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/regions\/\">Azure regions page<\/a>\u00a0on the Microsoft website\u00a0(although my sources tell me that &#8220;Cardiff&#8221; is really &#8220;Newport&#8221; &#8211; close enough as to make no difference anyway, and London is probably &#8220;near London&#8221; too).\u00a0 The Office location information was taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net\/\">Office 365 Interactive Data Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, UK customers already using Azure or Office 365 will be asking &#8220;will my data be moved to a UK datacentre?&#8221;. There&#8217;s no official announcement from Microsoft (not that I&#8217;ve seen) but my (unofficial) answer is &#8220;no&#8221;. At least not automatically.<\/p>\n<p>For Azure, it&#8217;s good practice to design across multiple regions. There are also implications around geo-replication (<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/documentation\/articles\/best-practices-availability-paired-regions\/\">which regions are paired with which<\/a>\u00a0for business continuity and disaster recovery purposes). Moving resources from one region to another is possible but is also a project that would need to be undertaken by a customer (possibly working with a partner) as a programme of planned resource moves.<\/p>\n<p>For Office 365, it&#8217;s worth reading <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/library\/dn878163.aspx\">the TechNet advice on Moving core data to new Office 365 datacenter regions<\/a>. At the time of writing it hasn&#8217;t been updated to reflect UK datacentres (it was last updated 28 July 2016) but it currently says:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/library\/dn878163.aspx\"><p>&#8220;Existing customers that have their core customer data stored in an already existing datacenter region are not impacted by the launch of a new datacenter region&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The data residency option, and the availability to move customer data into the new region, is not a default for every new region we launch. As we expand into new regions in the future, we&#8217;ll evaluate the availability and the conditions of data moves on a region by region basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New customers or Office 365 tenants created after the availability of the new datacenter region will have their core customer data stored at rest in the new datacenter region automatically.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The page goes on to state that, assuming the data residency option is made available for the UK (remember, nothing has been announced yet)<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/library\/dn878163.aspx\"><p>&#8220;Customers will need to request to have their data moved within a set enrollment window.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and that:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/library\/dn878163.aspx\"><p>&#8220;Data moves can take up to 24 months after the request period to complete&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a footnote on the UK interactive data map to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net\/\"><p>&#8220;Customers who signed up and selected the United Kingdom for their Office 365 services before September 2, 2016 will have their customer data located in the EMEA datacenter locations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, in short, Office 365 (SaaS) data stays exactly where it is, unless you sign up for a new tenant, or wait for further announcements from Microsoft. 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