3.2 AWS Regions & Availability Zones Flashcards
1
Q
How many Availability Zones are operating currently globally?
A
69
2
Q
What is Availability?
A
The extent to which an application is fulfilling its intended business purpose. Applications that are highly available are built in a manner where a single point of failure won’t lessen the applications ability to be fully operational.
3
Q
What is an Availability Zone?
A
Smaller units of Regions, comprised of more than one data centre.
4
Q
How do you distinguish between an Availability Zone Name and a Region Name
A
A Region Name is only the Area, SubArea and Number. A Availability Zone Name is the Area, Subarea, Number and Letter
