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Microsoft launched its India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Telangana21 Sept 2026
Microsoft launched its India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad, bringing its India cloud region count to four (along with Pune, Chennai and Mumbai). The company said the region has three availability zones and is designed for mission-critical and AI workloads, with resilience aligned to India’s regulatory and seismic requirements.
Why it matters
A new hyperscale cloud region increases in-country compute and data-residency capacity available to Indian enterprises and public-sector systems running critical and AI workloads.
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