In this post, we’ll take a look at the components that make up the AWS Global Infrastructure.

The components are:

• Availability Zones (AZs)
• Regions
• Edge Locations
• Regional Edge Caches

If you are deploying services on AWS, you’ll want to have a clear understanding of each of these components, how they are linked, and how you can use them within your solution to YOUR maximum benefit. Let’s take a closer look.

Relevant links:

AWS Library

AWS outage article

Multi-Region VPC connectivity

Course: AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Course: Amazon CloudFront

AWS Service Region Table

AWS GovCloud

EC2 Instance types explained

Working with Amazon CloudFront

Serve your files using CloudFront CDN 

Configuring a Static Website with S3 and CloudFront 

Minimize latency with Lambda@Edge