AWS Classroom Series – 22/Oct/2019

Amazon Global Infrastructure

References

1. Global Infra
2. Infra Map

Global Infra

1. Region:
   • Geographical Location
   • Regions code => <Continent>-<direction>-<regioncount>
   • Examples:
     • Mumbai => ap-south-1
     • NVirginia => us-east-1
     • Oregon => us-west-2
2. Availability Zone:
   • Actual place where you have Datacenters
   • Naming convention is <region-code><alphabet>
   • Eg: us-west-2a, us-west-2b, ap-south-1a

Cloud Terms

1. Service:
   • Offerings by Amazon
   • Examples:
     • RDS => Databases
     • EC2 => Virtual Machines
     • VPC => Network
2. Resource:
   • Using Service whatever you have created is a Resource

Example of Create a Network resource using VPC Service

• Network scope is region
• Subnets scope is Availability Zone