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South Africa West

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South Africa West is part of Azure public cloud, in Cape Town, South Africa. It has no availability zones listed. Its paired region is South Africa North.

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Region facts

Programmatic name
southafricawest
Location

Cape Town, South Africa

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Cloud
Azure public cloud
Availability zones
No availability zones listed
Paired region
South Africa North

Regional planning

Pairing and disaster recovery

South Africa West and South Africa North are paired in both directions.

Both regions are in the South Africa geography.

Published median round-trip latency from South Africa West to South Africa North: 21 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: Reserved for South Africa North customers requiring in-country disaster recovery

Access must be enabled for the subscription through an Azure support request.

How to request region access

Availability zone planning

South Africa West: No availability zones listed. South Africa North: 3 availability zones.

Zone support is not listed for South Africa West. Check each service's redundancy options before designing for a datacenter outage.

Check service and zone support

Lowest published latency from South Africa West

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 South Africa West
Destination regionMedian round-trip time
South Africa North 21 ms
UAE North 119 ms
UAE Central 121 ms
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