A US federal agency requires that its workloads run in an instance of Azure that is physically and logically isolated from the commercial cloud, with its own endpoints and its own operations staff. What do you point them at?
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Correct A sovereign offering such as Azure Government
Correct. Sovereign clouds are separate instances of Azure with their own regions, portals and service endpoints, run to meet the requirements of a specific government or jurisdiction.
Not correct Any US region that supports availability zones
Wrong. Zones give datacentre-level fault isolation within the commercial cloud. They change nothing about who operates the platform or whether commercial tenants share it.
Not correct A private endpoint in front of every resource
Wrong. A private endpoint controls the network path to one resource. The requirement here is about which instance of the cloud the workload runs in, not about how traffic reaches it.
Not correct A dedicated resource group for the agency
Wrong. A resource group is a management container inside the same cloud — a lifecycle and permissions convenience, not an isolation boundary of any kind.
Why
Sovereign means a separate cloud, not a special label on an ordinary region: Azure Government in the United States and Azure operated by 21Vianet in China are distinct instances with their own regions and endpoints, and a subscription in one cannot simply reach across to the other. Ordinary regions, availability zones and resource groups are all constructs inside whichever cloud instance you are already in.
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