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Deploying virtual machines to two or more Azure regions effectively ensures high availability against a single data center failure. Azure regions are geographically separate and independent, each containing multiple data centers. By distributing VMs across regions, an outage in one entire region (which would encompass multiple data centers) will not affect the services running in another region. This strategy provides the highest level of disaster recovery and business continuity for regional-level failures. If VMs were deployed only within a single region, even across different availability zones, a complete regional outage would still impact all services.