AWS Global Infrastructure

Question 1

What is an availability zone?

Answer 1

An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region.

Question 2

What is an AWS Region?

Answer 2

A geographical area consisting of two or more Availability Zones

Question 3

What is an AWS Edge Location?

Answer 3

Endpoints use for caching content. Used by CloudFront

Question 4

Why should I choose a specific AWS Region?

Answer 4

• > Data Sovereignty Laws
• > Latency to end users
• > AWS Services (US East 1 always has the latest and greatest)