Introduction

What is a REGION?

• Geographic location where multiple Datacenters located.

• Datacenter

• AWS Headquarter

What is availability zone (AZ)?

• Datacenter (AWS - one or more datacenters)

• Virtual Private Cloud.

• Special zone where network devices groupped.

What is us-east-1?

• It is a region alias in North Virginia.

• It is region name in California?

• It is Avalibility zone in North Virginia.

• It is Datacenter in east coast.

How does AWS connect their global infrastructure?

• They use Network Vendor

• AWS partners with Verizon

• AWS has built their own network

• AWS partners with Starlink

At least how many datacenter/AZs in a REGION?

• 2

• 3

• 1

• 6

What are benefits of Points of Presence. Select 2 answers.

• extra cost

• lower latency

• higher transfer speeds

• AWS hardware inside your datacenter

Why AWS has local zones?

• AWS wants to bring their services closer to the customer

• AWS has a lot of money

• AWS wanted to provide 5G network

• AWS wanted customers with datacenter to have in house cloud

What if customer has Petabytes of data? How can they move the data to AWS efficiently?

• Use accelerated connection via the internet

• Use AWS provided fiber cables

• Use AWS private network

• Use AWS Snow family