Microsoft Azure: Israel Central

The Israel Central Azure region is Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure deployment located in Israel, designed to provide local organizations and government agencies with Azure cloud services within national borders. Launched in 2023, this region introduces multiple Availability Zones to ensure high resilience and fault tolerance. It fulfills critical demand for data residency, security, compliance, low latency, and continuity for Israeli enterprises, regulators, and public institutions. 

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Part of an Azure region featuring multiple Availability Zones (planned or active), each built with independent power, cooling, and network infrastructure to guard against localized failures.
• Designed to meet Azure’s standard norms of reliability, including redundant power and cooling systems, and infrastructure to support a broad set of cloud services.
• Incorporates Microsoft’s trusted cloud infrastructure to deliver consistent compute, storage, networking, AI / data analytics, IoT, and other cloud offerings. 

🔐 Security & Compliance

• Provides data residency within Israel for customers, supporting regulatory requirements and national governance expectations.
• Complies with Microsoft’s global security and privacy mandates, which align with international and local standards. 
• Includes infrastructure resilience via availability zones, which helps maintain operations even if one zone experiences outage. 

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• The region is fully part of Microsoft Azure’s global infrastructure, enabling low-latency connectivity locally within Israel and internationally through Azure’s backbone network. 
• It supports ExpressRoute peering and Azure services connectivity consistent with other Azure regions; customers can connect via Microsoft’s private network interconnects (though specific carrier partners in-region are not publicly detailed). 
• Supports inter-region redundancy and disaster recovery via Azure region pairing and global network topology.

💼 Who It Serves

• Government, public sector & regulated industries in Israel that require local data residency and compliance with national laws. 
• Enterprises and businesses with latency-sensitive applications, needing faster access, backups, and disaster recovery within Israel. 
• Startups, tech and innovation companies building cloud-native, data-intensive, AI/ML, IoT, or analytics workloads that benefit from local scaling, support, and compliance.