Australia Central
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Use the region facts and planning sections to review its programmatic name, availability zones, pairing, and access requirements.
Australia Central is part of Azure public cloud, in Canberra, Australia. It has no availability zones listed. Its paired region is Australia Central 2.
Explore Australia Central
Latency
Published round-trip measurements from Australia Central to 53 other regions.
VM prices
782 Linux and 794 Windows VM sizes with pay-as-you-go prices in USD. Compare hourly rates and pricing plans in Australia Central.
Compare Australia Central VM pricesIP ranges
49 IPv4 and 23 IPv6 prefixes in AzureCloud.australiacentral. Inspect or download the regional AzureCloud ranges.
View Australia Central IP rangesRegion facts
- Programmatic name
- australiacentral
- Location
Canberra, Australia
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- Azure public cloud
- Availability zones
- No availability zones listed
- Paired region
- Australia Central 2
- Approx. opening year
2018
Reported operational year for this location; individual Azure services can have different launch dates.
- Published residency note
Stored at rest in Australia
Microsoft's datacenter summary. Storage and replication behavior depend on the service and configuration.
Regional planning
Pairing and disaster recovery
Australia Central and Australia Central 2 are paired in both directions.
Both regions are in the Australia geography.
Australia Central 2 has restricted access. Paired region eligibility: Reserved for Australia Central customers requiring in-country disaster recovery
Published median round-trip latency from Australia Central to Australia Central 2: 3 ms.
A region pair does not automatically replicate your application or enable failover. Configure recovery for each service you use.
How Azure region pairing worksAccess and service availability
Eligibility: Available to all customers and partners
Available services, VM sizes, and quota still depend on the region and subscription.
Check products available by regionAvailability zone planning
Zone support is not listed for Australia Central. Check each service's redundancy options before designing for a datacenter outage.
Check service and zone supportLowest published latency from Australia Central
The three lowest measured destinations in Microsoft's P50 (median) round-trip dataset. These are Azure backbone measurements; use the browser test for your own connection.
| Destination region | Median round-trip time |
|---|---|
| Australia Central 2 | 3 ms |
| Australia East | 8 ms |
| Australia Southeast | 13 ms |