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articles/reliability/regions-nonregional-services.md

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-title: Azure non-regional services
+title: Azure nonregional services
 description: Learn about geographic and global Azure services.
 ms.service: azure
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 03/24/2025
+ms.date: 03/25/2025
 ms.author: anaharris
 author: anaharris-ms
 ms.custom: subject-reliability
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-# Azure non-regional services
+# Azure nonregional services
 
-Non-regional Azure services are services that you don't deploy into a specific Azure region.  This article explains the difference between global and geographic non-regional services, and provides a list of non-regional services that indicates whether each is a global or geographic service.
+Nonregional Azure services are services that you don't deploy into a specific Azure region. This article explains the difference between global and geographic nonregional services, and provides a list of nonregional services that indicates whether each is a global or geographic service.
 
+## Types of nonregional services
 
-## Types of non-regional services
-
-There are two types of non-regional services:
-
-- **Global services** are deployed to many Azure regions worldwide. If there's a regional failure, an instance in another region can continue to operate. With Global services, you don't need to specifically design for resiliency as they are automatically resilient to regional failures. 
+There are two types of nonregional services:
 
+- **Global services** are deployed to many Azure regions worldwide. If there's a regional failure, an instance in another region can continue to operate. With global services, you don't need to specifically design for region-wide outages, because these services are resilient to regional failures.
 
 - **Geographic services** are deployed to a geographic area, and not a specific Azure region. Within that geographic area, one or more Azure regions might be used to serve client requests. To understand the geographic areas, and learn how to design a resilient solution with a geographic service, see the documentation for that service.
 
-Generally, most non-regional services support one or the other, but not both. For example, Azure AD B2C is a global service, while Azure DevOps is a geographic service. However, Microsoft Entra ID is a service that can be either global or geographic, depending on how you configure it.
-
-## Regional dependent service components
+Generally, most nonregional services are either global or geographic, but not both. For example, Azure AD B2C is a global service, while Azure DevOps is a geographic service. However, Microsoft Entra ID is a service that can be either global or geographic, depending on how you configure it.
 
-When you use a non-regional service, you don't need to choose a region for the service itself. However, you might need to choose a region for dependent components that you use with the service. For example, if you use [Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/virtual-desktop/), which is a non-regional service, you can choose the region where your host pool (virtual machines) should reside.
+Most nonregional services that store customer data enable you to select a specific region for data storage. To learn more, see [Data residency in Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/global-infrastructure/data-residency/).
 
+## Regionally dependent service components
 
-## Data storage for non-region services
+When you use a nonregional service, you don't choose a specific Azure region for the service itself. However, you might need to choose a region for dependent components that you use with the service. For example, if you use [Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/virtual-desktop/), which is a nonregional service, you can choose the region where your host pool (virtual machines) should reside.
 
+## List of nonregional services
 
+Microsoft publishes a [a list of services, which includes nonregional services](https://azure.microsoft.com/explore/global-infrastructure/products-by-region/table). The table below also contains the list of nonregional services, but specifies whether each service is global or geographic, and provides additional notes about data residency and configuration.
 
-## List of non-regional services
-
-Although Microsoft publishes a [a list of non-regional services](https://azure.microsoft.com/explore/global-infrastructure/products-by-region/table), the table below also contains the list non-regional service, but specifies whether each service is global or geographic, and provides additional notes about data residency and configuration.  
-
-| Product | Global | Geographic | Notes |
+| Service | Global | Geographic | Notes |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | Azure AD B2C | ✅ | | |
 | Azure Advisor | ✅ | | |
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 ## Related content
 
 - [Data residency in Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/global-infrastructure/data-residency/)
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