Global Infrastructure Flashcards
What does AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure consist of?
Availability Zones
Regions
Edge Networks
What is an Availability Zone (AZ)?
An Availability Zone consists of one or more data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.
How far apart of data centers of a single AZ?
typically within 100 kilometers or 60 miles of each other
What is an AWS Region?
An AWS Region consists of multiple Availability Zones. AWS has various regions available in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and other parts of the globe
What are edge networks of Point-of-Presence or PoP
It consists of Edge Locations and Regional Edge Caches, which enables you to distribute your content with low-latency (pronounce: Laaay-tancy) to your global users. Basically, a PoP serves as an access point that allows two different networks to communicate with each other.
How are AZs represented?
By a region code followed by a letter identifier; for example, us-east-1a.
What is an AWS Local Region?
A single datacenter designed to complement an existing AWS Region.
What is an AWS Local Zone?
Places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today
What is AWS Points of Presence?
Either edge locations or edge caches
What services use Points of Presence?
Cloudfront and Lambd@edge
