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Availability Zone and Region⚓︎
Region⚓︎
What is Region
?
A region
in AWS represents a separate geographic area. If you have used AWS before, you must have seen this picture:
Each AWS region
is isolated and operates independently from other regions
.
Availability Zone⚓︎
What is Availability Zone
?
Availability zones
are highly available data centers within each AWS region
. Each availability zone
has independent power, cooling and networking.
The availability zones
within each region
are connected via low-latency links to provide replication and fault tolerance.
Relation: AZ and Region⚓︎
The relationship between Region
and Availability Zone
can be seen in the picture below:
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Last update:
December 6, 2022 19:56:40
Created: November 21, 2022 00:19:55
Created: November 21, 2022 00:19:55