Azure Virtual Desktop Metadata Database available in South Africa

I am pleased to announce that the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata service is now generally available in South Africa North, extending the service’s regional database capability to meet your organization’s needs.

We are constantly expanding our footprint of the Azure Virtual Desktop connectivity platform to ensure lower latency and an improved experience for organizations around the globe. We currently have a service presence in every Azure geography. We’ve also enabled the ability to specify the geography where we store service metadata, which is a benefit for organizations that require this for regulatory or compliance reasons as well as for improved latency. You can choose to locate your Azure Virtual Desktop host pool objects within South Africa and be assured data will remain within that geographical boundary.

The addition of South Africa extends the full geographies that are supported to eight: the United States, Canada, the European Union, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, India, and South Africa.

When deploying a host pool, you will now see that South Africa North is listed as a region to store the metadata:

When you create host pools, the metadata for those host pool objects is only stored within the geography selected. We replicate the data to the Azure paired region for disaster recovery purposes.

The Azure Virtual Desktop connectivity platform provides connectivity and data storage services for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365. It securely delivers Windows desktops and applications from the world's most distributed hyperscale cloud. This is just another example of our commitment to making Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop truly global virtual desktop services that provide the most extensive list of locations for geo-residency purposes and make use of the growing number of Azure regions.

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