AWS Offering

AWS offers a broad set of over 175 global cloud-based services:

AWS Benefits

• On-demand access to over 175 services cloud-bases services
• Pay-as-you-go pricing
• No upfront capital expenses or commitments
  • The ability to try a lot of experiments
  • Not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments
• Toolbox of high-end services

AWS Global Infrastructure

The main component of the AWS global infrastructure are Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations. This map shows the current Regions and edge locations that are available in North America.

1. Region: AWS has the concept of a Region, which is a physical location around the world where data centers are clustered together. A group of logical data centers is called an Availability Zone. Each AWS Region consists of multiple, isolated, and physically separate Availability Zones within a geographic area.
2. An availability Zone is a zoned area within a Region that can harbor one or more data centers (Typically three). Availability Zones house all the hardware devices that AWS offers. With their own power infrastructure, the AZ’s are physically separated by a meaninful distance (up to 100 km or 60 miles) from any other AZ in the Region.
3. Edge locations: Are connected to the AWS Regions through the AWS network across the globe. They link with tens of thousands of networks for improved origin fetches and dynamic content acceleration. Edge locations cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location. They support AWS services like Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront. AWS has over 200 edge locations that are placed in 90 cities, across 47 countries.

Map of AWS Regions

Regions are located all across the globe: