Azure provides all its services through data centers in multiple regions. These data centers are interconnected within regions as well as across regions. Azure understands that it hosts mission critical and important applications, services, and data for its customers. It must ensure that security is of the utmost importance for its data centers and regions. Customers deploy applications on the cloud based on this trust that Azure will protect their applications and data from vulnerabilities and breach. Customers will not move to the cloud if this trust is broken and hence Azure implements security at all layers from physical data center perimeter to logical software components. Each layer is protected, and even Azure data center team does not have access to them.
Security is of paramount importance to both Microsoft and Azure. Azure is a cloud platform--a platform...