Fabric region : datacenter region or geographic region

[msprog]

Hi,

I had a question about the terminology being used in the context of fabric region.  does this refer to the datacenter region or geographic region.  for example Australia is the geographic region, and you have datacentres in Australia East(Sydney) and  Australia South East(MElbourne) regions. 

Take for example, this article Manage workspaces - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

Here it is mention ed :  If you're reassigning a workspace to a capacity located in a different region, you must remove all non-movable items first, otherwise reassignment will fail.

Here what does fdifferent region mean? different datacenter region or a different geographic region.

Please can someone clarify this for me. 

thanks

[lbendlin]

In general anything that is not in the same physical data center will give you (on average) more problems than if stuff is in a low latency environment.

[burakkaragoz · Accepted solution]

Hi @msprog ,

Great question — the term "region" in Microsoft Fabric typically refers to the Azure datacenter region, not the broader geographic grouping.

So in your example, Australia East (Sydney) and Australia South East (Melbourne) are considered different regions, even though both are within the same geographic area (Australia). When the documentation says "a different region", it means a different Azure datacenter region, like moving from Australia East to Australia South East — not from Australia to Europe or the US.

This distinction matters because certain Fabric items (like Lakehouses, Warehouses, etc.) are region-bound and can’t be moved across datacenter regions without being recreated.

Hope that clears it up!

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[yvaubourg]

Hi @msprog,

Fabric capacities are link to Azure region and an Azure region can have multiple datacenters.

Here is a table for all region where Fabric workload are available: Fabric region availability - Workload and feature availability