{"id":2305,"date":"2016-09-15T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:00:14","slug":"microsoft-cloud-in-the-uk-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/microsoft-cloud-in-the-uk-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Cloud in the UK now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><span>On September 7, 2016 Microsoft became the first global cloud provider to offer a complete cloud with data residency in the UK when we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-azure-now-available-from-uk-datacenters\/\">announced<\/a><span> the general availability of Azure and Office 365 from new UK datacenter locations. The Microsoft Cloud in the UK empowers the digital transformation of businesses and public sector organizations, helping them increase productivity and meet compliance and policy requirements. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><span>Government customers in the UK are already choosing Microsoft for their digital transformation initiatives, as they can now move critical workloads to the cloud. \u00a0\u00a0See some of the m<\/span><span>edia coverage from this announcement: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><span>CBR: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbronline.com\/news\/cloud\/public\/microsoft-claims-uk-cloud-dominance-over-aws-4998399\">Microsoft claims UK cloud dominance over AWS with local data centres<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><span><strong>BBC<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-37285667\">Microsoft&#8217;s UK data centres power up cloud services<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">The Daily Mail: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/reuters\/article-3777346\/Microsoft-offers-wide-range-cloud-services-UK-datacentres.html\">Microsoft offers wide range of cloud services from UK datacenters<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">The Daily Telegraph: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/09\/07\/ministry-of-defence-switches-to-the-cloud-as-microsoft-opens-fir\/\">Ministry of Defence switches to the cloud as Microsoft opens first UK data centres<\/a>\u00a0<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Reuters: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-microsoft-britain-cloud-idUKKCN11D0LX\">Microsoft offers wide range of cloud services from UK datacenters<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><span>Read more at the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/2016\/09\/07\/not-publish-microsoft-becomes-first-company-open-data-centres-uk\/#sm.0073pnl010hoece10ta1vv2onz8fs\"><span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>Microsoft News Centre UK<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span>post.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To stay up to date on all things Azure Government, be sure to subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/feed\/\">RSS feed<\/a> and to receive emails by clicking \u201cSubscribe by Email!\u201d on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/\">Azure Government Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 7, 2016 Microsoft became the first global cloud provider to offer a complete cloud with data residency in the UK when we announced the general availability of Azure and Office 365 from new UK datacenter locations. 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