2.1. AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

The AWS Global Infrastructure is the highly distributed network of data centers that powers AWS Cloud services. Understanding its components is fundamental to deploying reliable, performant, and compliant applications on AWS.

💡 First Principle: The First Principle of AWS Global Infrastructure is to provide an inherently resilient, highly available, and scalable foundation for cloud services worldwide, minimizing latency and ensuring data residency. This allows users to deploy applications globally with high confidence.

This section explores the core components of the AWS Global Infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations.

Scenario: A company plans to launch a new application that needs to serve users in different parts of the world with minimal latency and requires protection against localized disasters.

Reflection Question: How does understanding the components of AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs, Edge Locations) fundamentally help businesses deploy applications that are resilient, highly available, and deliver a good user experience globally?