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AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS Global Infrastructure spans 61 Availability Zones within 20 geographical Regions around the world, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and 5 more Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong SAR, Jakarta, and Milan.  This shows how well established and far reaching Amazon Web Services' infrastructure is. For an updated list of Regions and Availability Zones please follow this link: AWS Global Infrastructure.




Term definitions:

Regions - an AWS region is a geographical area. (ex. US East, Asia Pacific, Canada)
Availability Zone -  are technically Data centers located within a region.  There can be multiple AZs in a single region.


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