AWS Global Infrastructure Flashcards
Provide multiple, physically separated, and isolated Availability Zones which are connected with low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant networking.
Regions
offer high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability. They consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and
connectivity, housed in separate facilities
Availability Zones
A single datacenter designed to complement an existing AWS Region that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers
AWS Local Region
Sites that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to your users
Edge Locations
Factors when choosing an AWS Region
Compliance with data and legal requirements
Proximity to customers
Available services
Pricing
Term for when data is replicated globally across regions inside AWS
Globally resilient
Term for services that operate in a single region with one set of data per region. The services operate as a separate service in each region that replicate data to multiple AZ within that region
Region resilient
Services which run from a single AZ
AZ resilient
Services which can only access the internet and be accessed by the internet if it is configured to do so
AWS Private Zone
Network zone where AWS public services operate from
AWS Public Zone