- Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
- Proximity to customers
- Available services within a Region
- Pricing
- Each region has many availability zones (usually 3, min is 2, max is 6)
- Each availability zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity
- They’re separate from each other, so that they’re isolated from disasters
- They’re connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking
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- CUSTOMER = RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SECURITY IN THE CLOUD
- AWS = RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SECURITY OF THE CLOUD