Japan West

Japan West is a cloud region operated by AZURE in Osaka, Japan. It is the region you select when you want compute, storage and managed services served from infrastructure physically located in or near Osaka.

The region comprises 3 Availability Zones, each a separate physical facility with independent power, cooling and network paths. Workloads distributed across multiple AZs in the same region survive single-facility failures with millisecond-scale failover latency.

The region has been operational since 2014 (12 years).

If you need multi-cloud workloads in Osaka, the providers listed below also operate a region here.

• AWS · Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3
• GCP · Osaka asia-northeast2
• OCI · Japan Central (Osaka) ap-osaka-1
• VULTR · Osaka osa