When a user deploys a service instance, the user can specify a 'zone preference', but the final zone for that service instance is decided by AWS, not the user. Other AWS instances, like an SNS queue, exist in all zones simultaneously.įor example, zone 'a' for the region 'us-east-1' is named 'us-east-1a'. Some AWS instances, like EC2 instances, are in a single zone. A zone is a physical network and power partition (air-gap firewall) within a regional data center. What is an AWS Zone?Īll instances of an AWS service reside in one or more Zones. Component devices that represent region-specific AWS services reside under the appropriate 'region' component device and appropriate 'zone' component device. For example, the Dynamic Applications might discover a component device called 'Oregon: us-west-2'. The component devices for regions include both the region name and city/state description. The Dynamic Applications in the Amazon Web Services PowerPack create a 'region' component device for each discovered region. For example, us-west-2 is commonly referred to as 'Oregon', ap-northeast-1 is commonly referred to as 'Tokyo', etc. Regions have a canonical naming scheme of:įor example, the 'us-east-1' region is located in the United States, on the east coast, and it is the #1 data center in that region.ĪWS regions are also commonly referred to by the city or state in which the data center is located.

Each zone may have multiple data centers.

What is an AWS Region?Īn AWS region is a geographical area made up of availability zones located within that region. AWS includes multiple products (called Services) including virtual servers, DNS, private cloud, content delivery, storage, and database products. What is AWS?Īmazon Web Services is Amazon's 'Infrastructure As A Service' offering. For more information about setting up a SL1 appliance on an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance, see the section on Deploying ScienceLogic Appliances in the Amazon Cloud.įor more information about setting up an AWS Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack, see the section on Monitoring AWS ELK Stacks.

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