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| What are some characteristics of Regions? |
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-Regions are fully independent and isolated
-Regions have multiple AZs (usually 2 or 3) that are physically independent of each other |
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| Regions are geographic areas where AWS has established data centers. Each region consists of multiple AZs, which are essentially separate data centers within a region. |
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| What is an Availability Zone (AZ)? |
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| AZs are data centers. There are usually 2 or 3 AZs per AWS Region. |
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| What are characteristics of AZs? |
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-AZs are fault tolerant, which means that if 1 AZ is effected by an outage, the others should not be.
-Highly available means that there are at least 2 AZs used
-AZs are fully independent of each other |
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