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Starting right this moment, you will get extra granular visibility of geographic location data for AWS Regions and AWS Availability Zones (AZs). This detailed data will enable you select the Regions and AZs that align together with your regulatory, compliance, and operational necessities.
We proceed to increase the AWS world infrastructure to satisfy your enterprise necessities and now have 114 AZs throughout 36 Regions. We have introduced plans so as to add 12 extra AZs and 4 Regions in New Zealand, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
One of the issues we’ve realized from our clients is the necessity to have extra visibility into the precise location of infrastructure inside an AWS Region. This is necessary for patrons in extremely regulated industries such because the monetary business or gaming, the place there are particular necessities for the bodily placement of infrastructure. For instance, FanDuel, a number one sports activities gaming firm based mostly within the U.S., is scaling into new markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. They are profiting from the improved geographic transparency to make extra knowledgeable selections and guarantee they’re assembly information residency necessities as they scale their enterprise shortly.
Geographies for AWS Regions
To discover the geographic data on your Region, you may go to the AWS Global Infrastructure Regions and Availability Zones web page. Once you navigate to this web page, you may select any tab on the map and scroll to the underside to evaluate the geographic data for every Region. See the next picture for an instance displaying the North America Regions. As could be anticipated, the infrastructure for the US West (Oregon) Region is positioned within the United States of America, and the Canada (Central) Region is positioned in Canada.
Geographies for Availability Zones
To discover the precise geographic data for an AZ, you may go to the AWS Regions and Availability Zones web page in AWS Documentation. Choose the Region you’re occupied with and also you’ll discover a desk displaying you the geography for that Region. As you see within the following screenshot, the infrastructure of the AZ with AZ ID use1-az1 is positioned in Virginia, United States of America.
Stay tuned
We will replace these pages to mirror new geographic data as we proceed to develop our AWS Global infrastructure footprint and add extra AWS Regions and AZs.
Quick hyperlinks
To study extra, go to the AWS Global Infrastructure Regions and Availability Zones web page or AWS Regions and Availability Zones in AWS Documentation, and ship suggestions to AWS re:Post or via your regular AWS Support contacts.
– Prasad
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