From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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Regions and Availability Zones

Regions and Availability Zones - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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Regions and Availability Zones

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- [Instructor] EC2 instances can be launched in one or more geographical regions. Each region is a geographic independent collection of AWS resources. AWS currently operates in 22 geographical regions around the world, with more coming online all the time. These regions are distributed worldwide and categorized by five primary land areas: North America, South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. There are seven regions in North America: US East, located in Northern Virginia and also located in Ohio, US West, located in Northern California, US West, located in Oregon, one in Central Canada and two regions referred to as GovCloud, one located in the Northwest of the United States and the other located in the Northeast of the United States. GovCloud regions are designed to allow US Government agencies, contractors and their customers to move highly sensitive data into the Cloud by addressing…

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