Azure Tips Issue #3 — Azure regions, Azure roles & Azure AD roles, Business continuity and disaster recovery plans and more

Jiadong Chen
4 min readOct 1, 2021

# 1 Azure regions, availability zones, and region pairs

This tip is not an introduction to best practices, on the contrary, it introduces some basic and important concepts in the Azure cloud. Recently, both Microsoft and Amazon are coming to New Zealand to build data centers. I think this article will be very interesting in this context.

# 2 Azure roles and Azure AD roles

If you are just starting to use the Azure cloud or are confused about the concepts of Azure roles and Azure AD roles, this article can answer your questions very well.

Azure resources and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) have independent permission systems. Azure roles are used to manage access to virtual…

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Jiadong Chen

Microsoft MVP, MCT | Azure Certified Solutions Architect & Cybersecurity Architect Expert | Member of .NET Foundation | Packt Author