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5 Things To Consider When Choosing Your AWS Region
How to figure out the right region for your Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a global service that is spread across 25 geographic regions with over 80 availability zones. There are plans to launch five additional regions and more than 15 new availability zones in the near future.
Depending on the service you wish to launch, you may want — or have — to select a specific AWS region. For example, if you are obligated to keep data in a specific country or continent, you would probably want to select the appropriate AWS region. Additionally, you may want to launch highly available services that are distributed across multiple availability zones within the region.
In today’s article, we are going to discuss what AWS regions and availability zones are. Additionally, we’ll go through five different factors that you must consider when choosing a region.
What Are Regions and Availability Zones in AWS?
AWS regions are clusters of data centres across various physical locations in the world, such as North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Every region has its unique identifier. For example, the US East data centre in Ohio is named us-east-2 . Most services…
