AWS regions and zones
AWS services are hosted on multiple geographical locations around the world. In the world of AWS, locations consist of regions and availability zones. Each region is an independent geographical location. Each region contains multiple isolated internal locations known as availability zones. Some services — such as Amazon EC2, for example—give you full power as to which regions to use for your service deployment. You can also replicate resources across regions. You can find a list of available AWS regions at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html#concepts-available-regions.
For complex application deployments in AWS, developers typically deploy their microservices into ...
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