AWS Global Infrastructure Flashcards
1
Q
What are the three different AWS global infrastructures?
A
Availability Zones (AZs)
Region
Edge Locations
2
Q
What’s an Availability Zone?
A
It’s a Data Center (a building filled with servers). They can be one or more them one but since they are very close to each other, it only counts as one
3
Q
What are Edge Locations?
A
Are endpoints for AWS that are used to caching content. Typically it consists of CloudFront, Amazon Content Delivery Network,
4
Q
What are Regions?
A
Is a geographical area. Each Region consists of 2 or more Availability Zones
5
Q
What is GovCloud?
A
It’s a special type of region only designed for US Citizens or federal corporations.
6
Q
What are the main reasons to choose the right AWS Region?
A
Data restrictions laws
Latency to end users
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