{"id":364,"date":"2015-05-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2015\/05\/10\/vs-online-hosted-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T20:54:17","slug":"vs-online-hosted-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/vs-online-hosted-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"VS Online hosted in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we are expanding our VS Online<\/a> footprint to include an instance in Australia.\u00a0 This adds to the several instances we have in the US and the one we have in Europe.\u00a0 It is part of our drive to make VS Online available to everyone, in a geography you are comfortable with and with performance you are happy with.<\/p>\n

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Australia East is the Sydney\/New South Wales data center.\nVS Online has logic to auto-select your region based on the IP address you are signing up from.\u00a0 It tries to default you to the \u201cbest\u201d region for you.\u00a0 You can, of course, override it by choosing any of the regions from the list.\u00a0 The Australian region is special though and I want to make a few comments about it.\nAnyone can create a VS Online account in the Australian region, however, not everyone can pay for resources in the Australian region.\u00a0 If your account is free and always will be, you have nothing to worry about.\u00a0 If you plan to purchase user licenses, build minutes, load test minutes, etc. then you need to think.\u00a0 For reasons that I don\u2019t thoroughly understand and won\u2019t try to explain, we can only bill usage in the Australian region to customers with Australian or New Zealand billing addresses<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you create an account in the Australian region and then decide you want to pay for something, you will need to move it to another region if you have no way to supply an Australian or New Zealand billing address.<\/del>\u00a0 ***UPDATE Nov 2, 2016*** This restriction has been removed and the Australian data center is open to everyone.<\/strong>\nChoosing a region specifies where all of your VS Online data (source code, work items, test cases, builds, etc) will reside.\u00a0 By choosing the Australian region, for instance, all of this data, including any backups, will stay in our data center in Australia.\u00a0 The region does not, in any way, affect the url that you use to access your account.\u00a0 Your account is always http:\/\/<myaccount>.visualstudio.com<\/a> and that will be routed to the right region.\nIf you already have a VS Online account and you would like to move it to the new Australian region, you can do that by contacting support<\/a>.\nWe are continuing to build out our regional support.\u00a0 We are currently planning for an instance in South East Asia and one in Brasil.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a timeline yet so don\u2019t ask \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I don\u2019t know which will come first yet.\u00a0 I expect it will take a few months for the next one but I\u2019ll know more as we get a little further along.\nThanks,\nBrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, we are expanding our VS Online footprint to include an instance in Australia.\u00a0 This adds to the several instances we have in the US and the one we have in Europe.\u00a0 It is part of our drive to make VS Online available to everyone, in a geography you are comfortable with and with performance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vsonline"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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