AWS Global
Infrastructure
David Tucker
CTO Consultant
@_davidtucker_ | davidtucker.net
Regions
Availability Zones
AWS Global Infrastructure
Local Zones
Edge Locations
Reviewing the elements of the AWS global
infrastructure
Overview Understanding the use of AWS Regions
Understanding Availability Zones within
AWS Regions
Understanding the use of Local Zones
Reviewing the purpose of Edge Locations
Utilizing the AWS global infrastructure
visualization
AWS Regions and Availability Zones
Each region is in a specific geographic location
Each geographic location has a cluster of data
AWS Regions centers
AWS currently has 30 launched regions
AWS Regions
Consists of one or more data centers
Multiple availability zones are included with
each AWS Region
Located within the geographic area of the AWS
Availability Zones Region
Redundant power, networking, and
connectivity
There are currently 96 availability zones
globally
United States AWS Regions
REGION AVAILABILITY ZONE
Availability
Extent to which an application is fulfilling its intended business purpose.
Applications that are highly-available are built in a manner where a single
failure won’t lessen the application’s ability to be fully operational.
Region and Availability Zone Naming
us-east-2a
Area Sub-area Number AZ
Region Name
Availability Zone Name
AWS Regions
Region Region Identi er Region Region Identi er Region Region Identi er
US East (Ohio) us-east-2 Asia Paci c (Singapore) ap-northeast-2 Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 Asia Paci c (Sydney) ap-southeast-1 Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2
US West (N. California) us-west-1 Asia Paci c (Tokyo) ap-southeast-2 Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1
US West (Oregon) us-west-2 Canada (Central) ca-central-1 Middle East (UAE) me-central-1
Asia Paci c (Hong Kong) ap-east-1 Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1
Asia Paci c (Hyderabad) ap-south-2 Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1 Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1
Asia Paci c (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3 Europe (London) eu-west-2
Asia Paci c (Mumbai) ap-south-1 Europe (Milan) eu-south-1
Asia Paci c (Osaka) ap-northeast-3 Europe (Paris) eu-west-3
Asia Paci c (Seoul) ap-northeast-3 Europe (Spain) eu-south-2
This list does not include all regions. Regions in China and those used by the US government have been left off the list.
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Local and Wavelength Zones
Local Zones
AWS Local Zones place compute, storage, database, and other select AWS
services closer to end-users. Each AWS Local Zone location is an
extension of an AWS Region. 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.
Citation: Amazon Web Services
United States AWS Local Zones
REGION LOCAL ZONE
Wavelength Zones
Wavelength Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS
compute and storage services within communications service
providers’ (CSP) 5G networks, so application traffic from 5G devices reach
application servers running in Wavelength Zones without leaving the
telecommunications network.
Citation: Amazon Web Services
AWS Edge Locations
Points of Presence
Points of presence are elements of AWS global infrastructure that exist
outside of AWS regions. These elements are located in or near populated
areas, and specific AWS services use them to deliver content to end users
as quickly as possible. Within the overall points of presence, there are two
types of infrastructure: edge locations and regional edge caches.
At the time of this course recording,
there were over 410 points of
presence globally within the AWS
global infrastructure with over 400
edge locations and 13 regional
edge caches.
Used as nodes of a global content delivery
network (CDN)
Utilized by Amazon CloudFront and Amazon
Route 53
Edge Locations
Located globally at over 400 different
locations
Allows AWS to serve content from locations
closest to users
Visualizing AWS Global Infrastructure
Demo
Reviewing the method of accessing the
AWS global infrastructure site
Reviewing regions and availability zones
within the site
Reviewing edge locations within the site
Scenarios
Scenario 1
Jane’s company is looking to transition to AWS
They are starting with a few workloads
It is a requirement to store backup data in
multiple geographic areas
Which element of AWS global infrastructure
will best suit this need?
Scenario 2
Tim’s company serves content through their
site to users around the globe
They are looking to optimize performance to
users around the world
They want to leverage a Content Delivery
Network (CDN)
Which element of the AWS global
infrastructure will be used in this case?
Scenario 3
Ellen’s company is transitioning one of their
legacy applications to AWS
This application requires uptime of at least
99.5%
They want to be sure any issues at a single
data center don’t cause an outage
Which element of the AWS global
infrastructure supports this need?
Summary
Reviewed the elements of AWS global
infrastructure
Summary Understood the use of AWS Regions
Understood Availability Zones within AWS
Regions
Understood the use of Local Zones
Reviewed the purpose of Edge Locations
Utilized the AWS global infrastructure
visualization
Scenario 1
Jane’s company is looking to transition to AWS
They are starting with a few workloads
It is a requirement to store backup data in
multiple geographic areas
Which element of AWS global infrastructure
will best suit this need?
Solution: AWS Region
Scenario 2
Tim’s company serves content through their
site to users around the globe
They are looking to optimize performance to
users around the world
They want to leverage a Content Delivery
Network (CDN)
Which element of the AWS global
infrastructure will be used in this case?
Solution: AWS Edge Location
Scenario 3
Ellen’s company is transitioning one of their
legacy applications to AWS
This application requires uptime of at least
99.5%
They want to be sure any issues at a single
data center don’t cause an outage
Which element of the AWS global
infrastructure supports this need?
Solution: AWS Availability Zone (AZ)
