Grouping of Azure regions such as United States; restoring a Key Vault backup is allowed only inside the geography it came from.
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Terms in this definition
- Access policies
Older permission model for Key Vault, now superseded by the Azure RBAC model.
Related terms
- Backup and restore
Key Vault feature producing an encrypted blob of a stored object; restoring it works only into a vault within the same subscription and the same Azure geography as the original.
- Key Vault backup and restore
Lets you download a key, secret or certificate from a vault as a protected blob. Restoring it is limited to vaults that sit in that same subscription and Azure geography.
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- Standard deployment type (regional)
Deployment type charged per token in which prompts and responses are processed inside the resource's Azure geography, making it the choice when data has to remain in a single geography.