Data center

As explained in 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.

A data center is a facility containing computing, storage, networking, and related infrastructure for delivering digital services. AWS distributes data centers worldwide, allowing you to run services near customers in locations such as Ireland, Japan, or Australia. section 1.1

AWS groups data centers into regions. A region typically contains three or more well-connected data centers, while regions remain independent and do not automatically transfer data between one another. Some services, including IAM, CDN, and DNS, operate globally across regions. section 3.5

Choose a region by weighing:

• Latency: place infrastructure closer to users to reduce network distance and loading times. section 3.5
• Compliance: verify that data may be stored and processed in the chosen country. section 3.5
• Service availability: confirm that the required AWS services are offered in that region. section 3.5
• Cost: compare regional service prices before choosing an infrastructure location. section 3.5

Moving compute closer to Australian users

If customers in Australia experience slow access while virtual machines run in N. Virginia (us-east-1), select Asia Pacific (Sydney), or ap-southeast-2, in the AWS Management Console and launch an additional machine there. Running machines in different data centers can also support high availability when a load balancer routes requests to healthy servers. section 3.5 section 1.2.3

Figure 1.1 AWS data center locations

Browse the global distribution of AWS data center locations. section 1.1

How Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS covers it

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 it assumes

Teaches data centers and regions from basic AWS terminology, while assuming only a web-application deployment context.

What you can do after

Operate/configure AWS deployments by selecting regions and placing virtual machines near users or across data centers.

How it connects

Connects data centers with regions, virtual machines, latency, compliance, load balancing, database replication, and high availability.

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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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