Running an Azure role in multiple regions?

Question

I currently have a production deployment in West Europe and would like to create another instance that is running in the US.

How is this possible?

Answer 1

This is not possible at instance level. But you can have geographically distributed applications at hosted service level, using the Traffic Manager. This means you'll need a hosted service for your West Europe deployment and one for your US deployment.

This blog post explains how to make it work: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CloudPowerHowToScaleAzureWebsitesGloballyWithTrafficManager.aspx