Microsoft has ran out of free IP-addresses in the U.S.

Microsoft has ran out of free IP-addresses in the U.S.

Microsoft has exhausted American free IP-addresses for its cloud-based Azure. Friday blog corporations driven explanation for clients who asked Microsoft about why her American virtual machines are on IP-addresses that do not belong to the United States. Microsoft says that among the major Internet companies and hosts this practice is common, for example, using machines Yahoo Brazil Portugese address. 

Microsoft says that the corporation initially tried to obtain new IPv4-address in various ways, but in the U.S. it did not succeed . "As a result of this, we have to bind American VMs on Azure service with a non-American IP-addresses" - said in a company blog. 

A post emphasizes that the question of using IP-addresses - is a purely technical issue, and if the virtual machine is on a server located in the U.S., but is used for addressing the Brazilian IP-address, the data is still managed in accordance with the American jurisdiction. Otetim that now have some statistical system geo IP-address system, so they provide inaccurate statistics periodically.