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Regions and Availability Zones

Your application runs in one building. That building has one power feed, one cooling system, and one set of network cables. Everything AWS does about resilience is a response to the fact that buildings fail.

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Chapters

How AWS physical locations affect latency and reliabilityAWS partitions its global footprint into independent Regions and Availability Zones to let you trade speed, cost, and disaster recovery.14 minFoundationsUnder the hood

The path

ExperimentFailure domain experimentTake one zone offline and inspect remaining capacity.