Region It is a Geographic area or physical location. Every Region has a unique region Code like Mumbai has ap-south-1. Each Region has a m...
Region
- It is a Geographic area or physical location.
- Every Region has a unique region Code like Mumbai has ap-south-1.
- Each Region has a minimum of 2
AZ.Availability Zone (AZ)
- It is a data center within a Region.
- AZs within a Region are connected to each other and they are within 100 km (most likely) of distance.
- Data flow between the AZs is encrypted.
Edge Location
- It is data centers that are near to the user's location.
- It provides the lowest latency
- Mostly these are in major cities of a Region/Country
- It is mainly used for Caching the data so that when a user request for a file then it should be transferred from the Cached server.
- CloudFront Service is an example of an Edge Location.
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