Region, Availability Zone and Edge Location in AWS
1. Availability Zone
Availability Zone is a database center, it is like a central area containing hardware, servers,...
2. Region
Region is an area containing many Availability Zones, such as Tokyo Region, Sydney Region,...
3. Edge Location
Edge Location is the cloud front container to cache data of regions.
For example, if you sit in Tokyo, and download a heavy file in New York, that file will be cached at the edge location Tokyo. When someone else from Tokyo also downloads the file, it will be faster.
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