Microsoft has 43 data center regions as of October 2017.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judged as of October 2017. True: Microsoft's official count of Azure regions around October 2017 was 43, counting regions announced as well as those generally available if that was Microsoft's usual basis, or exactly 43 on either basis. Mostly true: the official count was 42 or 44. Mostly false: the count differed by 3–5, or 43 matches only by combining categories in a misleading way. False: the official count differed by more than 5.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Microsoft Azure launches two new regions in Australia | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 14 August 2017
“These two new regions will complement Microsoft’s existing two regions on the continent and bring the total number of global Azure regions to 42.”
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E2 Azure News 2017 – Week 40 marckean.com · 11 October 2017
“Connecting hundreds of datacenters in 38 regions (42 announced) around the world, Azure’s global network offers near-perfect availability, high capacity, and the flexibility to respond to un-predictable demand spikes.”
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E3 Azure News 2017 – Week 40 marckean.com · 11 October 2017
“With 42 announced regions worldwide (more than any other cloud provider) you can begin using Azure Availability Zones in preview for resiliency and high availability.”
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E4 Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability | Microsoft Azure Blog Microsoft Azure Blog (Microsoft) · 22 September 2017 Own record
“With 42 announced regions worldwide (more than any other cloud provider) and backed by one of the largest networks on the planet”
Reasoning
In August 2017, TechCrunch reported that two new Australian regions brought the global total of Azure regions to 42 [E1]. Microsoft's own blog post of 22 September 2017 gave 42 announced regions [E4], and an independent roundup dated 11 October 2017 repeated that figure, adding that 38 were available [E2, E3]. So the official count around October 2017 was 42 on the announced basis, not 43. That is one off, which the criteria rate as mostly true.
Cite this claim
Satya Nadella, “Microsoft has 43 data center regions as of October 2017.” (said October 2017). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_a4c734b74f0a, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a4c734b74f0a
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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