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VM prices

1,310 Linux and 1,238 Windows VM sizes with pay-as-you-go prices in USD. Compare hourly rates and pricing plans in Canada Central.

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Region facts

Programmatic name
canadacentral
Location

Toronto, Canada

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Cloud
Azure public cloud
Availability zones
3 availability zones
Paired region
Canada East
Approx. opening year

2016

Reported operational year for this location; individual Azure services can have different launch dates.

Published residency note

Stored at rest in Canada

Microsoft's datacenter summary. Storage and replication behavior depend on the service and configuration.

Regional planning

Pairing and disaster recovery

Canada Central and Canada East are paired in both directions.

Both regions are in the Canada geography.

Published median round-trip latency from Canada Central to Canada East: 13 ms.

A region pair does not automatically replicate your application or enable failover. Configure recovery for each service you use.

How Azure region pairing works

Access and service availability

Eligibility: Available to all customers and partners

Available services, VM sizes, and quota still depend on the region and subscription.

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Availability zone planning

Canada Central: 3 availability zones. Canada East: No availability zones listed.

Zone support varies by service and VM size. Choose zone-redundant or zonal deployments explicitly; selecting Canada Central alone does not distribute a workload across zones.

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Lowest published latency from Canada 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.

Lowest published median round-trip times from Canada Central
Destination regionMedian round-trip time
Canada East 13 ms
East US 18 ms
North Central US 19 ms