AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

• Region: A geographical area with 2 or more AZs, isolated from other AWS regions. There are 23 regions around the world at the moment.

• Availability Zone: One of more data centers that are physically separate and isolated from other AZs.

• Edge Location: A location with Cache Content that can be delivered at low latency to the users. Mostly used by CloudFront for delivering content such as static files or video content.

• Regional Edge Cache: Also part of the CloudFront network.These are larger caches that sit between AWS services and Edge Locations.

• Global Network: Highly Available, low latency private global network interconnecting every data center, AZ and AWS region.