Regions & Availability Zones

▪ Cloud providers have physical data centers

▪ Data centers all over the world

▪ Region = physical location, where data centers are clustered

▪ Each group of logical data centers is called an

▪ Availability Zone Availability Zones = one or more discrete data centers

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