Summary

In this chapter, we examined the AWS Global Infrastructure in detail. We understood that, as the customer, you can choose which AWS Region to deploy your resources and applications in, and looked at the key factors that should be taken into consideration when choosing a specific Region.

We also looked at the concept of AZs, which enable you to build your solutions that offer high availability, fault-tolerance, and scalability options. Understanding which services are classified as global or regional is also critically important to your design architecture.

We then looked at edge locations and their importance in the overall design of your cloud-application solutions. Edge locations and regional edge caches enable you to make your web applications' content and digital assets available to customers on a global scale via low-latency and high-speed network links. This is achieved by caching frequently accessed content locally at edge locations closer to the end users...