2 years ago

There are two common responses I get when I tell people I’ve built a cloud course focused on Azure Government. You know, Azure for Government, Azure for Healthcare, Azure for Balloon Artists, right?

Both AWS and GCP have government-specific offerings, too. But Azure’s approach is markedly differently from AWS and GCP’s offerings. At this time, neither AWS or GCP has chosen the sovereign cloud path. Similar to Azure Government, AWS and GCP advertise extra physical security measures. But unlike Azure Government, they assert that data centers isolated from the rest of their global cloud platforms are sufficient.

Azure Government is built on the exact same technologies as global Azure, but it is a completely separate cloud platform. Here are a few more differences between Azure Government that are different from global Azure: Azure Government has a handful of regions or data center locations, all located in the United States. This in contrast to the dozens of world-wide regions in global Azure.

But some services in Azure Government have a few differences and limitations not present in global Azure, as documented in this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/compare-azure-government-global-azure Of course, nothing is stopping your organization from having subscriptions in both global Azure and Azure Government clouds!