Zones For Billing Purposes

• Zone for billing purposes is not the same as an Availability Zone - "Zone" is for billing purposes only and "Availability Zone" refers to the failure protection that Azure provides for datacentres.

• Billing zones help determine the cost of services you are using.

• Some inbound data transfers, such as data going into Azure datacenters, are free.

• For outbound data transfers, such as data going out of Azure datacenters, data transfer pricing is based on Zones.

• The following Zones exist and include the sample regions as listed below:

  • Zone 1 - West US, East US, Canada West, West Europe, France Central and others.

  • Zone 2 - Australia Central, Japan West, Central India, Korea South and others.

  • Zone 3 - Brazil South.

  • DE Zone 1 - Germany Central, Germany Northeast.