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AWS Building Blocks

Global Infrastructure

  • 24 Regions
  • 77 Availability Zones

Regions

  • Regions are geographical areas
  • Regions consist of two or more availabilty zones

Availability Zones

  • A data center or several data centers close together would be considered and availablity zone.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/

Edge Locations

  • AWS endpoints used for caching content
    • Consists of CloudFront (Amazon's content delivery network (CDN))
    • Currently over 215 edge locations

AWS Service Types relevant for the AWS Solution Architect Exam

  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Databases
  • Migration and Transfer
  • Network and Content Delivery
  • Management and Governance
  • Analytics
  • Security, Identity and Compliance
  • Application Integration
  • AWS Cost Management
  • Containers