Azure UK Data Centres located in London, Durham and Cardiff are now up and running Microsoft have confirmed.

Ministry of Defence and an NHS trust are to take up Azure services as a result of the datacenters coming online.
The datacenters, which will power Microsoft’s online computing services in the UK, will allow the UK government bodies for example, to keep data in the UK for Microsoft Azure and Office 365.
Over 100 Data centers are used by Microsoft across the world, and is the first in the UK.
Google has 15 data centers across America, Asia and Europe.
Amazon is set to open its own rival AWS UK data centres soon.