AWS Local Zones are now available in four new metro areas—Buenos 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 🇨🇭 last week, AWS now have 28 active Regions and 90 Availability Zones! Let’s break down what it actually means ⬇️
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧? It is a separate geographic area that consists of multiple separate Availability Zones (AZ). AWS offers Regions with a multiple AZ design.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐙𝐨𝐧𝐞? 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.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫? 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
