Explain the following
- Availability zone
- Region
- Edge location
Answer
AWS regions are data centers hosted across different geographical locations worldwide.
Within each region, there are multiple isolated locations known as Availability Zones. Each availability zone is one or more data-centers with redundant network and connectivity and power supply. Multiple availability zones ensure high availability in case one of them goes down.
Edge locations are basically content delivery network which caches data and insures lower latency and faster delivery to the users in any location. They are located in major cities in the world.