How to choose an AWS Region?
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Compliance with data governance and legal requirements: data never leaves a region without your explicit permission
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Proximity to customers: reduced latency
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Available services within a Region: new services and new features aren’t available in every Region
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Pricing: pricing varies region to region and is transparent in the service pricing page
AWS Availability Zones
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Each region has many availability zones (usually 3, min 2, max 6)
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Global Services:
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Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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Route 53 (DNS service)
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CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
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WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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Region-scoped Services:
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Amazon EC2 (Infrastructure as a Service)
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Elastic Beanstalk (Platform as a Service)
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Lambda (Function as a Service)
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Rekognition (Software as a Service)
