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Regions & Availability Zones

A region is a geographic location; availability zones are physically separate data centre groups inside it.

Intermediate 4 min Cloud Computing
REGIONOne geography, low latency between zonesUsersChoose a nearby regionZone AIndependent power & networkZone BSeparate facilityZone CSeparate facility
Spread across zones for resilience, across regions for geography.

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