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Region placement of AVD ressources
Hi all,
What is best practice in terms of placement of AVD resources (workspace, app.group and host pool) in terms of performance/latency?
AVD services isnt available in all Azure Regions as you know.
A customer might be primarily based in West Europe but could need AVD in SouthEast Asia region. Closest region to put AVD resources would probably be Central India.
Would it be best to put AVD resources in CIN and Session hosts in SEA? Or could the AVD resources might as well be in WEU with same login time and performance?
Thank you in advance!
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I would rate to choose an Azure region that is geographically close to your users to minimize network latency.
Thank you for the reply Kidd_Ip !
Obviously the Workspace is the gateway. And if this is placed far from from where Session Host are placed this would result in latency.
I'm not doubting you're right. But do you know if there's any documentation or test result that proves this theory? Thinking design document etc.
Hi mikkelmoeller
The Azure Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator provides the lowest connection RTT from a current location.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/assessment/#estimation-tool
Microsoft recommends that you store all resources in the same Azure Region as your deployment of Azure Virtual Desktop.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/wvd/eslz-resource-organizationIt is also important to compare costs between Azure regions and to check the availability of Azure VM sizes in those regions.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-desktop
