Microsoft has officially launched Azure Belgium Central, a major step forward in strengthening Belgium’s cloud infrastructure and accelerating the country’s digital transformation. The new region brings Azure’s capabilities closer to Belgian organizations, offering improved performance, enhanced compliance options, and greater opportunities for innovation.
With Azure Belgium Central, organizations can benefit from local data residency, ensuring that sensitive data remains within Belgian borders, a crucial factor for sectors such as finance, healthcare, and public services. The new region also provides lower latency and higher availability, enabling faster and more reliable digital services for both internal operations and customer-facing applications.
Beyond performance, Azure Belgium Central reinforces Microsoft’s long-term investment in Belgium’s digital economy, supporting cloud adoption, hybrid scenarios, and the development of advanced data and AI solutions.
What This Means
The launch of this new Azure region opens the door to stronger cloud architectures, improved security and governance, and new opportunities for modern data and AI platforms. With Azure services now available locally, organizations can scale more confidently, run workloads with greater efficiency, and meet evolving regulatory requirements with ease.
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