Sitecore PaaS deployment topologies for Multi-regional scaling
 As we all know, there are two main deployment topologies for Sitecore XP:   Single  - mostly for developer and integration environments  Scaled  - for all other environments    This post is intended to cover regional deployment and scaling options for a fully scaled production PaaS deployment.     There are three ways in which you can regionally scale Sitecore:    Regionally scaled content delivery with shared xDB  Regionally scaled content delivery with isolated xDB  Regionally isolated Sitecore deployment    Option #1  is the most common scaling option and works in the the following scenario:     Content & experience management is regionally centralized  Marketing operations, marketing automation and digital marketing activities in general are regionally centralized  Web analytics collection is regionally centralized    This basically means that operationally speaking, the organization is fairly centralized in their management and governance for the following:    Content cre...