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Where in the world are your AWS services? - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Essential Training for Developers
Where in the world are your AWS services?
- Each AWS data center has its own set of electricity and internet providers to ensure redundancy if one provider is having an outage. Amazon has built multiple data centers near each other, and it's linked them all together with fast connections. Amazon has grouped these data centers into availability zones. You won't ever see which exact data center your AWS services are running in, and AWS keeps the data centers' locations as secret as they can. But you do select an availability zone. So your services may be served up behind the scenes by one or more AWS data centers linked together within that availability zone. AWS recommends that you always design your cloud infrastructure so that it can run simultaneously across at least two availability zones. Going back to our server rack, they want you to think of a single availability zone as a single rack in the data center. So if you want your service to have the highest…
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