It is common for an enterprise application to be hybrid by nature in terms of its deployment strategy. Factors like strict enterprise policies around data storage and requirement of integrating with legacy systems usually forces an application to span across multiple data centers and hosting platforms.

A Service Fabric cluster can be created with machines running Windows Server on any hosting platform. These machines can be hosted on Azure, on a private on-premises data center, on AWS (Amazon Web Services), Google Cloud Platform, or any other similar platforms.

An installation package for Service Fabric can be downloaded from the Microsoft website which will contain the required files to setup a standalone cluster. It is advisable to enable internet access on the host machines to enable real-time downloading of files required for the Service Fabric runtime. Offline versions of these files are also available as an alternative.