AWS Local Zones are now available in four new metro areasβBuenos Aires, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Muscat. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.
AWS Global Infrastructure at a glance!
With a new region launched in Switzerland π¨π last week, AWS now have 28 active Regions and 90 Availability Zones! Let’s break down what it actually means β¬οΈ
ππ‘ππ π’π¬ πππ πππ π’π¨π§? It is a separate geographic area that consists of multiple separate Availability Zones (AZ). AWS offers Regions with a multiple AZ design.
ππ‘ππ π’π¬ ππ―ππ’π₯πππ’π₯π’ππ² ππ¨π§π? An Availability Zone (AZ) consists of one or more data centers at a location within an AWS Region. All AZs in an AWS Region are connected through redundant, ultra-low-latency networks.
ππ‘ππ π’π¬ π ππππ πππ§πππ«? A Data Center (DC) is a physical facility that houses all the necessary IT equipment, such as servers, storage, network systems, routers, firewalls, etc. Many Data Centers -> AZ, Many AZs-> Region, Many Regions -> AWS Global Infrastructure! Image credit: AWSGeek
Sorry about the quality… I think I recorded this back in 2012 with an old phone… but… fun isn’t it?
Back in 1998, a group of senior engineers at Amazon wrote the Distributed Computing Manifesto, an internal document that would go on to influence the next two decades of system and architecture design at Amazon.
Source (Werner Vogels): https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon-1998-distributed-computing-manifesto.html
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