AWS has the concept of a Region, which is a physical location around the world where we cluster data centers. We call each group of logical data centers an Availability Zone. Each AWS Region consists of a minimum of three, isolated, and physically separate AZs within a geographic area. Unlike other cloud providers, who often define a region as a single data center, the multiple AZ design of every AWS Region offers advantages for customers. Each AZ has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple AZs to achieve even greater fault-tolerance. AWS infrastructure Regions meet the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection.
AWS provides a more extensive global footprint than any other cloud provider, and to support its global footprint and ensure customers are served across the world, AWS opens new Regions rapidly. AWS maintains multiple geographic Regions, including Regions in North America, South America, Europe, China, Asia Pacific, South Africa, and the Middle East.
An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. AZs give customers the ability to operate production applications and databases that are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than would be possible from a single data center. All AZs in an AWS Region are interconnected with high-bandwidth, low-latency networking, over fully redundant, dedicated metro fiber providing high-throughput, low-latency networking between AZs. All traffic between AZs is encrypted. The network performance is sufficient to accomplish synchronous replication between AZs. AZs make partitioning applications for high availability easy. If an application is partitioned across AZs, companies are better isolated and protected from issues such as power outages, lightning strikes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and more. AZs are physically separated by a meaningful distance, many kilometers, from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.
AWS Local Zones place compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services closer to end-users. With AWS Local Zones, you can easily run highly-demanding applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to your end-users such as media & entertainment content creation, real-time gaming, reservoir simulations, electronic design automation, and machine learning.
Each AWS Local Zone location is an extension of an AWS Region where you can run your latency sensitive applications using AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon File Storage, and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing in geographic proximity to end-users. AWS Local Zones provide a high-bandwidth, secure connection between local workloads and those running in the AWS Region, allowing you to seamlessly connect to the full range of in-region services through the same APIs and tool sets.
AWS Outposts bring native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. You can use the same AWS APIs, tools, and infrastructure across on-premises and the AWS cloud to deliver a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is designed for connected environments and can be used to support workloads that need to remain on-premises due to low latency or local data processing needs.
AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, database, analytics, networking, machine learning and AI, mobile, developer tools, IoT, security, enterprise applications, and much more.
The following core services are included in all Region launches: Access Analyzer, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppConfig, AWS Application Auto Scaling, Amazon Application Recovery Controller, Amazon Aurora, AWS Batch, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS Cloud Map, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Config, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Direct Connect, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EMR, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Fargate, AWS Health Dashboard, AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), Amazon Kinesis Streams, AWS Lambda, AWS Management Console, AWS Marketplace, Amazon OpenSearch Service, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Route 53, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS), Service Quotas, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF), AWS Site-to-Site VPN, AWS Step Functions, AWS Support, AWS Systems Manager (SSM), AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS X-Ray
In addition, the following services usually launch within 12 months of a new Region launch: Amazon Athena, AWS Backup, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, AWS Control Tower, AWS DataSync, AWS Directory Service, EC2 Image Builder, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Firewall Management Service (FMS), Amazon FSx, AWS Glue, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Lake Formation, AWS License Manager, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (MSF) , Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK), Amazon MQ , AWS Organizations , AWS Private Certificate Authority, AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), AWS Resource Groups, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Security Hub, AWS Shield Advanced, AWS Storage Gateway, AWS Transfer Family, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS WAF
Customers can share their interest for local region delivery, request service roadmap information, or gain insight on service interdependency (under NDA) by contacting your AWS sales representative.