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Global Infrastructure, Availability Zones, and Regions

Explore how AWS global infrastructure is structured with regions, availability zones, and edge locations. Understand their role in providing fault tolerance, low latency, and cost-effective cloud deployments. Learn key factors for choosing regions and zones to build resilient applications.

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

Amazon Web Services (AWS) operates a ...