AWS global infrastructure is built around regions, availability zones & edge networks
- Spread across 80+ AZs, 25+ geographic regions, 5+ local zones, 13 wavelength zones, 245+ countries & territories served, 230+ points of presence & 108+ direct connect locations
- Regions - North America, South America, APAC, Middle east, etc.
- region is composed of 2 or more AZs
- single AZ consists of multiple (>=1 data center)
- data center is a facility that houses 1000s of servers, storage & network devices
- Edge networks - retrieve content from servers closer to user(s)
- also known as content delivery network
- points of presence around the globe for faster data retrieval
- NFR benefits on AWS cloud
- Security - confidentiality & integrity, connected networking infrastructure - encrypted transmission
- Performance - low latency, low packet loss, redundant 100GbE fiber network backbone providing terabits of capacity across regions, single-digit millisecond latency across AWS infra & services closer to end users & 5G connected devices
- Flexibility - choice of AWS Wavelength / AWS local zones
- Global footprint - AWS Ground station is a special offering - provides satellite antennas in close proximity to AWS infrastructure regions
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