Global Infrastructure & Compute
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- AWS Region A separate geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones.
- Availability Zone One or more discrete datacenters within a Region, each with independent power and networking.
- Edge Location A site that caches content close to users to reduce latency, used by CloudFront and other services.
- Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud — resizable virtual servers in the cloud (IaaS).
- AWS Lambda A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without managing servers.
- Auto Scaling A service that automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances to match demand.
- Elastic Load Balancing A service that distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets such as EC2 instances.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk A service that deploys and manages web applications while handling the underlying infrastructure.
- AWS CloudFormation An infrastructure-as-code service that provisions AWS resources from templates.