AWS Global Infrastructure
Description
Comprehensive understanding of AWS global infrastructure including regions, availability zones, edge locations, and how to design applications that leverage AWS's worldwide presence.
Learning Objectives
Learners will gain deep understanding of AWS global infrastructure components including regions, availability zones, and edge locations. They will learn how to select appropriate regions based on latency, compliance, and cost considerations, understand how to design multi-AZ applications for high availability, and leverage edge locations for content delivery and reduced latency.
Topics (6)
Detailed explanation of AWS regions as geographically separate areas, availability zones as isolated data centers within regions, and how to leverage them for fault tolerance.
Classification of AWS services based on their scope, understanding which services require regional deployment and which are globally managed.
Understanding edge locations as cache endpoints for CloudFront CDN, their global distribution, and how they improve application performance.
Factors to consider when choosing AWS regions including data sovereignty, compliance requirements, service availability, and cost implications.
Introduction to AWS Local Zones for bringing compute and storage closer to end users, and Wavelength for 5G edge computing applications.
Understanding AWS Outposts as a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure and services to customer premises for hybrid architectures.