2Designing with AWS Global Services

In what region of the world are you considering locating your cloud resources? That is one of the main concepts of this chapter—and probably the most important chapter in the overall scheme of moving to AWS. The concepts of regions, availability zones (AZs), edge locations, and costing out your overall design are big-ticket items that you need to understand. At the end of this chapter are the first in a series of top 10 questions to consider relating to global services at AWS.

There is a fair bit of information on costs in this chapter; you want to have an idea as to the price of what you’re attempting on AWS before you get your first monthly bill. Of course, after you get your first monthly bill, the price ...

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