Merge pull request #296830 from johndowns/reliability-nonregional-services

Reliability Hub - Add list of nonregional services

Author: ShannonLeavitt

articles/reliability/TOC.yml

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
     href: regions-paired.md
   - name: Multi-region solutions in nonpaired regions
     href: regions-multi-region-nonpaired.md
+  - name: Nonregional Azure services
+    href: regions-nonregional-services.md
   - name: Azure regions list 
     href: regions-list.md
 - name: Azure availability zones

articles/reliability/availability-zones-service-support.md

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ landingContent:
             url: regions-paired.md
           - text: Multi-region solutions in nonpaired regions
             url: regions-multi-region-nonpaired.md
+          - text: Nonregional Azure services
+            url: regions-nonregional-services.md
           - text: Azure regions list
             url: regions-list.md
   # Card

articles/reliability/index.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+---
+title: Azure nonregional services
+description: Learn about geographic and global Azure services. See a list of nonregional services and whether they are global or geographic.
+ms.service: azure
+ms.topic: conceptual
+ms.date: 03/25/2025
+ms.author: anaharris
+author: anaharris-ms
+ms.custom: subject-reliability
+---
+
+# Azure nonregional services
+
+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
+
+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 nonregional services are either global or geographic, but not both. For example, Azure Front Door 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.
+
+## Data residency for nonregional services
+
+For most nonregional services that store customer data, you can 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
+
+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 Azure region where your host pool (virtual machines) resides.
+
+## 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.
+
+| Product | Global | Geographic | Notes |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Azure AD B2C | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false":::  | | |
+| Azure Advisor | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure AI Bot Service | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Blueprints | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Cloud Shell | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Communication Services | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | [Some data is stored in a geographic area.](../communication-services/concepts/privacy.md) |
+| Azure Content Delivery Network | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure DevOps | | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | |
+| Azure DNS | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Front Door | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Information Protection | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Lighthouse | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure management groups | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Maps | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Migrate | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Peering Service | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Performance Diagnostics | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Policy | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure portal | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Resource Graph | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Stack Edge | |  :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | |
+| Azure Static Web Apps | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure subscriptions | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Traffic Manager | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Azure Virtual Desktop | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | [Some data is stored in a geographic area.](/azure/virtual-desktop/data-locations) Host pools are located in a specific region. |
+| Microsoft Cost Management | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Microsoft Defender for Cloud | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Microsoft Defender for Identity | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Microsoft Defender for IoT | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Microsoft Entra ID |  :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: |  :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | Select location during Microsoft Entra tenant creation, which can be geographic or worldwide. See [Microsoft Entra ID and data residency](/entra/fundamentals/data-residency). |
+| Microsoft Graph | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Microsoft Intune | :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | | |
+| Microsoft Sentinel | |  :::image type="content" source="media/icon-checkmark.svg" alt-text="Icon that indicates that this region supports the corresponding column label." border="false"::: | |
+
+## Related content
+
+- [Data residency in Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/global-infrastructure/data-residency/)
+- [Azure regions list](./regions-list.md)