Azure Government
Microsoft's isolated US federal-government cloud region, separate from its commercial Azure service.
Azure Government is Microsoft's isolated cloud region for US federal, state and local bodies. Civo's May 2026 comparison table cited it alongside AWS GovCloud as a sovereign-cloud benchmark, though both are US federal products, not European services.
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Azure Government is Microsoft's isolated cloud region for US federal, state and local government customers and their contractors, physically and logically separated from Microsoft's commercial Azure service. Access is restricted to entities authorised by DISA or eligible US government bodies.
Civo's comparison table, published in May 2026 and no longer on its live pricing page, named Azure Government alongside AWS GovCloud as a benchmark for sovereign-cloud premiums. Both are US federal products rather than the European sovereign-cloud services the table was comparing against.
The episode illustrates a recurring pattern in sovereign-cloud marketing: US federal-restricted products, not sold in Europe, are used as price comparators for European commercial services, inflating the apparent premium of sovereign alternatives.