AWS has developed and created its highly available global infrastructure allowing users to deploy and manage their estates all across the world through the use of the following geographical components

  • Regions
  • Availability Zones
  • Edge Locations

When architecting and designing your infrastructure it’s important to know where your data is being stored and where your instances and services are located.  This is fundamental when designing and implementing a highly available and scalable network with low latency that abides by any data laws that may be in operation.

AWS Regions, Availability Zones & Edge Locations explained