AWS global architecture: spanning the globe

Introduction to AWS

Amar Suchak

Software Engineer

AWS's geographical diversity

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Introduction to AWS

AWS data centers: the cloud's star clusters

  • Data centers in each region
  • Highly secure, reliable, and high-speed

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Introduction to AWS

Redundancy & high availability

  • Multiple Availability Zones (AZs) per region
  • Each AZ is one or more discrete data centers

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Edge locations: speed of light

  • Over 400 Edge Locations worldwide
  • Stores copies of data
  • Faster content delivery with AWS CloudFront

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Black friday: AWS global architecture in action

Data Centers

  • Core processing and data storage
  • Scalable resources to manage the surge in traffic

Availability Zones

  • Redundancy to prevent service disruptions
  • Multiple data centers ready to take over the load if one faces an issue

Edge Locations

  • Fast content delivery to global customers
  • AWS CloudFront caching content closer to users for lower latency

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Introduction to AWS

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