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Global Infrastructure, Availability Zones, and Regions

Explore the key elements of AWS global infrastructure, including regions, availability zones, and edge locations. Understand how AWS designs its network to provide fault tolerance, low latency, and high availability for cloud services, optimizing data access and resilience for your 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 vast global infrastructure comprised of data centers, networking facilities, ...