A big announcement for UK customers, Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery is now available in the UK datacentres:
We’re pleased to announce Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery now available in the UK.
Azure Backup - The Azure-based service you can use to back up (or protect) and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud. Azure Backup enables Azure IaaS VM backup as well as replace your existing on-premises or off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive.
Azure Site Recovery - Contributes to your BCDR strategy by orchestrating replication of on-premises virtual machines and physical servers. You replicate servers and VMs from your primary on-premises datacenter to the cloud (Azure), or to a secondary datacenter.
Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery now available in UK
It was also announced Azure Site Recovery is available in new regions in addition to the UK:
Azure Site Recovery continues to grow at scale around the globe. It's now available in Canada Central, Canada East, UK South, UK West, and West US2.
Azure Site Recovery available in five new regions
