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Microsoft's Azure Local offering now scales up to 1,000s of servers
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Microsoft has revealed that its on-prem cloud offering, Azure Local, is now scalable up to thousands of servers.
Key facts
- In November 2025, the company announced it had expanded Azure Local, with it previously being able to support up to 16 servers
- Azure Local is available with compute and enterprise storage platforms from partners including DataON, Dell Technologies, Everpure, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Lenovo, and NetApp, allowing organizations
- Customers already using large-scale Azure Local deployments include AT&T, the Netherlands' land registry and mapping agency Kadastar, and FiberCop in Italy
- Microsoft has revealed that its on-prem cloud offering, Azure Local, is now scalable up to thousands of servers
Summary
This means that customers can create a single sovereign environment within large-scale footprint data centers. To date, Azure Local has typically been marketed as an on-prem or Edge offering, in which customers put Microsoft hardware in their own data centers, thus creating a sovereign and private cloud solution. In November 2025, the company announced it had expanded Azure Local, with it previously being able to support up to 16 servers. Now, according to a Microsoft blog post, it can scale to the thousands.