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Switzerland West

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Switzerland West is part of Azure public cloud, in Geneva, Switzerland. It has no availability zones listed. Its paired region is Switzerland North.

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Region facts

Programmatic name
switzerlandwest
Location

Geneva, Switzerland

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

Regional planning

Pairing and disaster recovery

Switzerland West and Switzerland North are paired in both directions.

Both regions are in the Switzerland geography.

Published median round-trip latency from Switzerland West to Switzerland North: 7 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 Switzerland 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

Switzerland West: No availability zones listed. Switzerland North: 3 availability zones.

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

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Lowest published latency from Switzerland 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 Switzerland West
Destination regionMedian round-trip time
Switzerland North 7 ms
France South 10 ms
Italy North 12 ms
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