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Exploring AWS regions

Exploring AWS regions - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Exploring AWS regions

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- We need to understand how AWS is deployed before we can start instantiating services within the various locations around the world. Recall that where we store our data could have legal implications, regulatory compliance requirements for that storage. So we need to have a firm understanding of how AWS is deployed globally. We see here on this particular slide there is the United States, and then four regions called out on that particular map of the United States. If we look at it globally, we can see on this particular slide that we have, the global map, the blue circles are currently deployed regions, and then the orange circles are coming soon regions. Now, a region contains availability zones, but what is the difference between a region and an availability zone? We see here that a region is a completely independent entity within most of the time the AWS console view. So the AWS Web console is your web view interface into Amazon Web Services. There are programmatic interfaces as…

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