<div dir="ltr">This was a large about face. <div><br></div><div>Microsoft has just annouced that they are opening up an Azure Region in australia. No details on time frame, but they said they will open datacenters in both NSW and Vic.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>I'm guessing the pressure from AWS and co opening up lately started to take its toll on microsoft. I just hope they don't do something silly like make it an "exclusive" partnership with telstra like Office365.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/au/microsoft-to-launch-australian-azure-hosting-region-7000015640/">http://www.zdnet.com/au/microsoft-to-launch-australian-azure-hosting-region-7000015640/</a><br></div><div>
<br></div><div style>--Damian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Joseph Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@apcs.com.au" target="_blank">joe@apcs.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A friend who works for probably one of the biggest Azure partners in Australia suggests that there are no plans for an Australian outfit at this time. I'd imagine they'd be apprised to this information as they are a big customer and would be keen to move into Australian based instances immediately if they were available!<div class="HOEnZb">
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On 3/05/13 8:20 AM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:<br>
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Now that Amazon has AWS locally any talk of Microsoft doing the same?<br>
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