Learning about the AWS Global Infrastructure
The infrastructure offered by AWS is highly secure and reliable. It offers over 175 services. Most of them are available in all AWS Regions around the world. Regardless of the type of technology application you are planning to build and deploy, AWS is sure to provide a service that will facilitate its deployment.
AWS has millions of customers and tens of thousands of consulting and technology partners around the world. Businesses large and small across all industries rely on AWS to handle their workloads. To give you an idea of the breadth of the scale that AWS provides, here are some statistics. AWS provides the following:
- 24 launched Regions
- 3 announced Regions
- 77 AZs
- Services in 245 countries
- 97 Direct Connect locations
- 205 edge locations
- 216 Points of Presence
- 11 Regional Edge Caches
Important Note
These numbers are accurate as of the writing of this book. By the time you are reading this, it would...
