Microsoft Azure UAE North Region (Dubai)

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Microsoft Azure UAE North Region (Dubai) is a data center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, operated by Microsoft, currently operational, opened in 2019.

Microsoft cloud datacenter region in Dubai, generally available since June 2019 as one of the first Microsoft cloud regions in the Middle East.

Microsoft Azure UAE North Region (Dubai) — schematic illustration — Schematic illustration based on published specifications, not a photograph · air-cooled · in operation

Operator: Microsoft
City: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Power, MW: —
Cooling: Air
Opened: 2019

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Coloprice Score

12 out of 100

limited data · #57 of 60 in United Arab Emirates

Resilience0/35
Compliance0/20
Transparency2/20
Scale0/15
Maturity10/10

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Dubai hosts UAE North, Microsoft's primary Azure cloud region in the Emirates, which reached general availability in June 2019 as one of the first two Microsoft cloud regions in the Middle East. It carries the bulk of the country's Azure and Microsoft 365 workloads and, since 2022, offers three availability zones — physically separate datacenter locations within the region that let customers run zone-redundant architectures for higher resilience. UAE North is paired with UAE Central in Abu Dhabi, which serves as the in-country disaster-recovery counterpart, so organizations can keep both primary and failover data inside the UAE. Microsoft does not disclose the power, floor space or rack counts of the underlying facilities, which is typical for its cloud regions. The region is aimed at enterprises, government bodies and startups that consume cloud services rather than colocation, particularly those with data-residency obligations under UAE regulation.

▮Microsoft's primary Azure region in the UAE, generally available since June 2019
▮Three availability zones launched in 2022 for zone-redundant deployments
▮Paired with UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) for in-country disaster recovery
▮Serves Azure and Microsoft 365 workloads with UAE data residency

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