Data center
A data center is a physical facility housing computing, storage, networking, and supporting infrastructure for operating information systems and digital services.
Think Like a CTO
A data center is a facility containing computing, storage, networking, power, and environmental infrastructure for operating information systems.
- How it is used
- Frames data-center hosting as a location and capacity decision for organization-managed physical hardware.
- How deep it goes
- Explains hosting options, server needs, procurement delays, and capacity trade-offs without detailing facility design.
- Examples
- Uses office and remote hosting locations and an online promotion requiring reallocated server capacity.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate/understand it by weighing hosting location, environmental needs, purchasing delays, and finite capacity.
Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS
A data center is a facility containing computing, storage, networking, and related infrastructure for delivering digital services.
- How it is used
- Guides infrastructure placement for AWS services and supports worldwide delivery, latency reduction, compliance, availability, and cost decisions.
- How deep it goes
- Explains regions, selection criteria, and high-availability placement, but stops short of detailed data center hardware or facilities.
- Examples
- Uses AWS locations such as N. Virginia and Sydney, plus multiple data centers serving web servers behind a load balancer.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure AWS deployments by selecting regions and placing virtual machines near users or across data centers.
Related concepts
- availability zonehas part · An availability zone is an isolated deployment location within a cloud region that provides a distinct infrastructure failure domain.
- cloud regionpart of · A cloud region is a geographically distinct area containing one or more infrastructure locations where a cloud provider hosts deployable resources and services.
- CDNused by · A content delivery network is a distributed network of servers that caches or delivers digital content from locations near requesting users.
- meanconfigured by · A mean is a measure of central tendency, calculated as the arithmetic average of values or, for a random variable, as the probability-weighted average of its possible values.
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