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Possible to add more available Azure regions? #12
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Hi @TrondHaugmo, thanks for raising this issue. The effort for adding new regions is relatively low. It requires a storage account to be set up in that location, and a small file to be added to the root container. The problem is that I don't have access to any of the regions in your list. The China regions (I believe) required state approval from the Chinese government before you can access them. Many of the other regions are specifically for government. If you're able to access any of these locations, or know how, then we could add them to the list. Thanks, Richard. |
Hello @richorama, and thanks for your update. Sorry about the delay in response from my side. I have done a bit more research on the subject. There is some form of restriction on all the available Azure regions currently missing in the AzureSpeedTest2 setup, but not necessarily because they are restricted for government use only. Not that it matters that much I guess, but thought I could give a small update anyway. In order to deploy resources in the four Chinese Azure regions, you need to have a separate Azure China account. To get that you need to have a business presence in China. The two regions already present in Germany (Germany Central, Germany Northeast) also requires a separate Azure Germany account. To get that you must be a customer operating in the EU/EFTA area. The solution in Azure Germany is designed specifically to accommodate the strictest EU data protection regulations and is under control of German Data Trustee. Only customers with a presence in France Central are allowed to deploy resources in France South to support "in-country" disaster recovery. The two additional Australia Azure regions (Australia Central, Australia Central 2) are restricted to only Australian and New Zealand government organizations and partners. The following article was used to gather the information above. My company has a business presence in both China and EU (including within France) already, so we could probably get storage accounts created in most of the regions (apart from the ones in Australia reserved for government organizations), but we currently do not have separate accounts in Azure China and Azure Germany. That may become a reality later (as we are looking into it), but for now it seems like there is nothing I can do either. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to respond to my initial inquiry. Best regards, |
Hi Trond, Thanks for your detailed research and write up! If at some point you do have access to one of data centres not currently supported by AzureSpeedTest2, it would be very much appreciated if you were able to host the small blob file that the test relies on. I haven't got a cost for the hosting, but I expect it's fairly near zero. I would of course recognise your support on the page. (i.e. https://github.com/richorama/AzureSpeedTest2/blob/master/index.jsx#L115-L116 ) Many thanks, Richard. |
Adding the two Africa locations to the list :¬/ |
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Hi @quintusm, thank you for your offer of help! I have been able to add I don't have access to |
HI @richorama Nope, its not showing in my list as yet either, even though I am in South Africa and expected that I would. Looks as though its maybe not fully available yet..... Thanks for providing this service btw, very useful and interesting. |
HI @richorama Found the following info on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/geographies/
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Hi @richorama |
@saenf Brazil south is already added, but I get some reliability problems with it sometimes. I’ll investigate. |
The special German regions will be discontinued. |
Hi, the following two regions are available as of today: |
Hello @richorama |
@Fingerz I'd love to add the UAE DCs on the list, but I don't see them in my Azure portal. If anyone does have access, and is able to help out, it would be much appreciated.. |
Happy to help with the UAE DCs...though I can only see UAE North (Dubai) at the moment. I suspect UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) is being prioritized for government customers at the moment. |
Kindly add UAE DCs to the site |
Can you add the new "Germany West Central" region, which is available since last week? |
@jhueppauff the azure portal won't let me create a storage account in this location:
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Are you also trying to create a new resource group? I tried it last week and ran into the same error. It seems resource group management is not yet available in germany... doh :P Try to create the resource group in another region. |
I was actually trying to use an existing resource group. I’ll have more of a play. Thanks.
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Are you also trying to create a new resource group? I tried it last week and ran into the same error. It seems resource group management is not yet available in germany... doh :P
Try to create the resource group in another region.
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That's odd. I tried it as well. Same issue, but I created one one Friday. It seems like Azure disabled it for whatever reason. Also my existing Account in Germany is in a quite unhealthy state. And reporting the same error. I guess we have to wait a bit longer. |
thanks @jhueppauff, I'll try again in a week or so. |
I just revived the information from Microsoft Support that west central Germany is now finally enabled. At least for me it is working now. |
Hi @richorama . Brazil region appeared now, but still not working. Could you review this? |
@jhueppauff I still get this error :¬(
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i had contact with azure support about this. you need to be whitelisted by azures "capacity team" for the new german regions. EDIT:
"Germany Central" and "Germany Northeast" are regions within "autonomous" german azure cloud (https://portal.microsoftazure.de). "Germany North" and "Germany West Central" are available from the normal portal, but you need to get whitelisted. You can view product support to this under: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/services/?regions=germany-non-regional,germany-central,germany-north,germany-northeast,germany-west-central |
Any chance that the 2 new Norway regions can be added here?
Hosted in Oslo & Stavanger, respectively. |
Hi @S-Tasker I'm afraid that I don't see the Norway regions in my list. It's possible that they aren't available to the general public. If you have access, and would like to help out, I'd be more than happy to add them. |
Please could you also add 2 new Swiss regions? They are:
if needed, I can help to host the storage accounts. |
I got access to the Germany West Central region. If the costs are low I can host the storage account. |
Hi @jurajsucik and @lukas34, thank you for your kind offers. I have added some instructions for adding regions. https://github.com/richorama/AzureSpeedTest2#adding-regions Steps 1-3 are the only important ones. Let me know if you need any help. Thanks! |
Okay so I created the storage account, uploaded the file, forked the repo and added the location but I am very inexperienced with node and npm and was not able to validate if it works. Should I create a pull request? |
Yes please!
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Okay so I created the storage account, uploaded the file, forked the repo and added the location but I am very inexperienced with node and npm and was not able to validate if it works.
I tried running npm run build and that went fine and also tried accessing my public blob and compared it with the others and everything looks fine.
Should I create a pull request?
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Thanks, @richorama |
Should storage accounts be hot or cold? |
definitely hot as they will get getting access frequently |
Hello @richorama , |
I believe Germany West Central does not require whitelisting anymore @richorama could Germany West Central be added? |
@richorama Thanks so much for this tool. We actively use this. Could you add Mexico Central to it? |
@MichaMican @benburich I'd recommend creating dedicated issues so they can be more easily tracked and closed on PRs. |
I will add the missing regions shortly :¬) |
Missing regions have been added Mexico Central |
According to the official Microsoft Azure Regions list there are now a few more available Azure regions:
Will these also be added to AzureSpeedTest2? Would be useful... I have used the website to determine what are likely the "closest" Azure regions for many of our offices around the world, and the additional available regions are most likely relevant for us. Not sure how much effort it is, and if the fact that a region is considered "available" by Microsoft is enough to enable it for your web servicer, but as I've been using the web service today and missed those sites I thought I should put in a request (issue).
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