Regions
Geographically distinct Location with AWS datacentres clustered around multiple Avilability Zones AZ within the same region. There are 22 Geographic Regions set up by AWS all around the world.
- 22 Regions
- Largest region = US-EAST
- US-EAST-1 (North Virginia) is the region where you see all of your billing information
Avilability Zones [AZ]
One or more Datacenters within a AWS Region.
There are total of 69 AZ Spread all around the world.
- 69 AZs
- At least 2 AZs in a single regions
- Aming for 3 AZs per region
- Latency between AZ is sub 10 milliseconds
Edge Locations
Data Centers owned by AWS or partners used for accelerating data access across the world. It as direct connection to the AWS network.
- Many Edge locations (~225)
- To upload/download data fast
- Serves requests for CloudFront and Route 53
- S3 Transfer Acceleration traffic and API Gateway endpoint traffic also utilizes edge locations
GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud Region allow customers to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information and other types of regulated workload.
- GovCloud Regions are only operated by employees who are US citizens, on US soil.
- So they are exclusively for US
- Made for customers who require secure solutions that comply with us government regulations