Die Azure Cloud ist in der Schweiz angekommen. In dieser Session beleuchtet Primo Amrein, Cloud Lead bei Microsoft Schweiz, die Einführung der Azure Cloud in der Schweiz, berichtet über die Erfolgsgeschichten und die Lessons Learned. Die Session wird mit einem Ausblick auf die Roadmap abgerundet.

1. Microsoft Cloud in Switzerland
Trivadis Azure Day – Oct 22
Primo Amrein – Cloud Lead

2. • 2’000 live webcast viewers
• LinkedIn Launch Article: >1000 likes, >150
reshares, >4000 views
• #TheCloudCH: top Twitter trend during
event, 13K impressions

3. Microsoft Cloud in Switzerland

4. Customer:
• Bio Partner Schweiz is the leading organic wholesaler in Switzerland
Case:
• «Cloud First» strategy versus on-premise to further expand business
• Azure and Managed Services (Monitoring, Update and Incident Management)
• Later: Office 365 implementation and Teams roll-out
Customer Benefits:
• In line with the Swiss philosophy, the management wants to keep data in Switzerland
• Lower latency with Swiss DC
• Flexibility, agility to drive innovations fast & more IT resources to implement digital change

5. Situation: Solution: Impact:
“Having Azure datacenters in Switzerland, Amsterdam, and other locations lets us
future-proof our business.”
Drones are appearing in
Switzerland’s skies, and skyguide,
the air navigation service provider
for Switzerland, wants to be ready
for them. It sought a disruptive
technology for managing drone
traffic.
—Robert Fraefel, Head of Swiss U-space, skyguide
Skyguide deployed AirMap
UTM, a service platform for
drones and operators that runs
on Microsoft Azure, to create a
drone traffic management
system for Switzerland.
The global presence of Azure
datacenters helps skyguide meet the
data protection needs of all European
customers and economically scale its
airspace management services for
drones.
Customer:
skyguide
Industry:
Government
Size:
1,500 employees
Country:
Switzerland
Products and Services:
Microsoft Azure
Read full story here

6. AI-based Platform for Medical Applications
The Cardio Explorer test is clinically tested &
approved and already in selective use at University
Hospital Basel or Hirslanden Clinic Zurich
Cause
Problem
Solution
No simple and accurate test available
Cardio Explorer: timely detection avoids heart attacks
12% of worldwide deaths
The easy-to-use Cardio Explorer test allows
• early detection of a narrowing of the coronary arteries
• higher accuracy than many established standard tests such as stress ECG
• detection of 7 times more potentially life-threatening stenosis
compared to primary diagnostics today
• significantly lower costs without any risk exposure for patients
Why Azure Cloud Switzerland?
• Sensitive health data
• Global roll-out plans
• Scalability and agility
Coronary Heart Disease is the leading cause of death
Stenosis (narrowing) of heart arteries cause heart attacks

7. swiss energy exchange swenex
swenex deployed into the Swiss Data Center as part of the
Early Adopter Program
Why Swiss Data Center?
• Legal & Compliance: Swiss Data Residency
• Proper Geo Redundancy Set-up for Public Sector end-clients
• Local Connection
• Lower Latency
About swenex
swenex is a leading energy service company in Switzerland for
end clients in the field of permanent energy management
(energy procurement, energy data management and billing).

8. • Early Adopters
• Partners Involvement
• Corp Timing
• Local Timing
• Pro-Active Communication
Lessons Learned

9. • Azure IaaS and some PaaS (Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB) launched in August 2019
• Further Azure services will be deployed in Switzerland step-by-step
• Office 365 follows roughly 3-6 months after the launch of the Swiss region
• Dynamics 365 and Power Platform follow in 2020
Rollout Sequence

10. Live Services Application Gateway Key Vault
Azure Cosmos DB Load Balancer
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Log Analytics
Azure DNS Private Zones Redis Cache
Azure Resource Manager Service Bus
Azure SQL Database Service Fabric
Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance Site Recovery
Azure SQL Database/SQL Data Sync SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Service Manager (RDFE) Storage/Disk Storage
Backup Storage/Hot/Cool Blob Storage Tiers
Cloud Services/Av2-Series/Dv2-Series/Dv3-
Series/Ev3-Series/M-Series
Storage/Managed Disks
Cloud Services/Instance Level IPs Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Cloud Services/Reserved IP
Virtual Machines Av2-Series/B-Series/DS-
Series/DSv2-Series/DSv3-Series/Dv2-
Series/Dv3-Series/ESv3-Series/Ev3-
Series/F-Series/FS-Series/M-Series
Event Grid Virtual Machines/Instance Level IPs
Event Hubs Virtual Machines/Reserved IP
ExpressRoute Virtual Network
ExpressRoute/ExpressRoute Circuits VPN Gateway
ExpressRoute/Gateways VPN Gateway/Virtual WAN

11. SAP-on-Azure
• M-Series are already deployed and ready in CH DC
‐ SAP HANA certified
‐ Powerful specialized hardware
‐ Optimized for SAP Workloads
• In addition, SAP is also in the process to enable their own SAP managed
services offering “HANA Enterprise Cloud” based on the Microsoft Swiss DCs

12. Extract of services planned to launch in the weeks and months after go-live:
• Azure Firewall
• App Services / ASE
• Azure DB for PostgreSQL / MySQL / MariaDB
• Azure Kubernetes Services
• Logic Apps
• Functions
Azure Services Roadmap
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/global-infrastructure/services/

13. Main CH DC Value Proposition vs e.g. EU
• Local Data Residency, including contractual commitment that customer data
at-rest stays within Switzerland
• Latency
• Informal measurements show considerable improvements over AMS/DUB
• Please note there will be no Msft official numbers on latency

14. • With Azure, regional uplifts are standard and of course Switzerland also falls under this
• Azure in CH North is on average 10-20% more expensive than Amsterdam,
depending on workload – this is within the expected range
• CH West has a further uplift – per the global standard for Azure disaster recovery sites
Pricing

15. Managed Process for Onboarding
• The Swiss DCs have the purpose to enable digital transformation primarily for Swiss clients
• The Azure region in Switzerland sees a high demand from both Swiss and international clients
• At first, we prioritize Swiss clients and partners with a requirement for local data residency
• Clients and partners are onboarded through a managed process where eligibility is qualified
• Don’t hold back, we’ve enabled access for dozens of additional clients after launch
• It is foreseen to open the region for general access in the coming months