AWS Geographic Regions and Availability Zones
Global Network of AWS Regions Availability Zones means group of Data Centers who are all interconnected to provide high availability and redundancy and are geographically in close proximity. Regions is a geographical area with 2 or more availability zones. AWS at present has: 69 Availability Zones 22 geographic regions New regions and AZ has been announced: 9 more Availability Zones and 3 more Regions in Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan North America The AWS Cloud in North America has 21 Availability Zones within six geographic Regions, with 44 Edge Network locations and two Regional Edge Cache locations. Edge Locations: Ashburn, VA (3); Atlanta GA (3); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL (2); Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (5); Denver, CO (2); Hayward, CA; Jacksonville, FL; Los Angeles, CA (4); Miami, FL (3); Minneapolis, MN; Montreal, QC; New York, NY (3); Newark, N...