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Global Infrastructure, AZs, and Regions

Explore how AWS's global infrastructure is organized into Regions and Availability Zones to provide reliable, low-latency cloud services. Understand the role of edge locations and regional caches in improving performance and how to choose the right areas for deploying applications to optimize cost, redundancy, and user experience.

When deploying services and applications on the cloud, organizations demand high availability, low network latency, and cost-effectiveness. However, these can only be offered if the data centers are strategically dispersed around the globe. AWS has built a resilient and highly available infrastructure by dividing the infrastructure among Regions and Availability Zones.

Global infrastructure

AWS operates a ...