Availability Zones and High Availability

An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers within a Region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking.

High availability requires deploying resources across multiple AZs.

A resilient architecture typically includes:

  • Load balancing across AZs
  • Stateless services distributed across AZs
  • Database replication (Multi-AZ)

Deploying in a single AZ creates a single point of failure.

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