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Availability Zone considerations

Availability Zone considerations - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Availability Zone considerations

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- [Instructor] All regions have at least two availability zones. There's always failover offered for your design at AWS. So, let's take a look at our case study, H+ Sport. Where should they actually go when they're working at AWS? Well, they're going to choose US East, Ohio. They're a Chicago-based company. So, that's what they're going to pick. They want to have a hybrid design and they want it to be as close as possible to their data centers. Most of their corporate users live there, so it makes sense and it also matches their compliance needs. After all, it makes sense, they're working in Chicago, they want to stay in Chicago, they want to stay local if at all possible for their hybrid design and every service that they require happens to be available, so it's a win-win and it's also one of the cheapest regions, so that's not bad either. Now the next thing we have to consider, Single-AZ, Multi-AZ. If it's a Single-AZ, we potentially have no recovery, you may hear about AZs going…

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