Regions
One concept that is important to know about is the concept of regions. I'm currently in the North Virginia, or US East 1, region. This is the default region for all Amazon Web Services. If I click on this drop-down menu, I can see other regions, such as Ohio, Northern California, Ireland, Frankfurt, and so on. Each region corresponds to an Amazon Web Services data center, and most services are specific to a certain region, so if you create resources, they are bound to the particular region that they were created in. If you switch region, you won't see resources that you created in another region. Moreover, not all services are available in all regions. If we click, for example, on Lambda, then we can see that Lambda is available in ...
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