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AWS Infrastructure Intro

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Summary

AWS has a global infrastructure spread around the world to ensure service performance and resilience. This lesson introduces the concepts of Region, Availability Zone, and Edge Location as the three pillars of AWS layout. This understanding is important because it determines the location of your data, latency, and availability of your app.

Key points

Region is the primary geographic location of AWS service providers
Availability Zone is a cluster of data centers within a single Region
Edge Location plays a role in bringing content closer to the user
Global layout supports resilience and low latency

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