Azure defines multiple geographies based on regions and availability zones, supporting disaster recovery and ensuring compliance with data residency requirements. This blog explores how Thru’s deployment in Azure data centers ensures high availability, robust security and seamless performance across regions. Continue reading for a quick understanding of those terms and their application to Thru.
What Are Azure Regions?
The perimeter of an Azure region is defined by latency. The data centers deployed in a region are connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network. This design ensures that Azure services within any region offer the best possible performance and security.
Deployed in Four Azure Regions for Global Performance
Thru is currently available and deployed in the following Geo regions:
- United States
- United Kingdom
- European Union
- Australia
If your business or compliance policies require your file transfers to be contained in region(s) other than the four listed above, please contact us to discuss your options.
What Are Azure Availability Zones?
Within each Azure region, physically separate locations that are tolerant to local failures are called availability zones.
Resilience by Design
Redundancy and logical isolation of Azure services provide tolerance to failures ranging from technology (software and hardware) to natural events such as earthquakes, floods and fires.
Thru is deployed in Azure regions that include a minimum of three separate availability zones. This high availability (HA) configuration results in resiliency for all critical systems running Thru and multiple copies of the data.
Benefits of Running in Thru Cloud Deployed in Azure Data Centers
As an established and well-known cloud provider, Azure provides a secure, extensive global footprint. Azure operates data center regions, and their accompanying availability zones, in several countries and is rapidly opening new regions and availability zones.
- For latency concerns, this enables a customer to provision and access multiple instances of Thru in different locations.
- For governance or compliance policies requiring file transfers to be contained in specific countries, this allows Thru to meet those requirements.
All the Benefits of a SaaS Model
Thru supports millions of file transfers monthly for large enterprises in industries such as finance, healthcare, logistics and manufacturing. Additional benefits of running in our cloud include
- Zero deployment or maintenance
- Automatic upgrade to new features
- Unlimited elasticity based on file transfer load
- High availability
- Defense-in-depth security in database, infrastructure and data centers
If you would like to know more about Thru in the cloud, please visit our Cloud Managed File Transfer (MFT) page »
