In the following video, as presented recently at Microsoft Ignite, the annual conference for developers and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft, Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, instructs attendees on how Microsoft Azure's data center architecture "enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge."
Of the platform, the company notes that "Microsoft Azure has achieved massive, global scale, with more than 50 announced regions consisting of over 100 data centers, and it is growing fast. [The architecture] delivers the promise of cloud computing, including high-availability, extreme performance, and security, by custom designing software and hardware to work best together," adds the video's summary.
In the video, Russinovich takes Ignite attendees on a tour of Azure's data center architecture and implementation innovations, describing everything from Azure's global infrastructure, to how Microsoft enables large-scale enterprise scenarios in both cloud and edge implementations.