AWS Global Infrastructure
Updated on: 23 Jun 2025 - Vivek Singh
graph TD
%% Global AWS Infrastructure Hierarchy
A[**Global AWS Infrastructure**]
A --> B[**Regions** <br/>
**Over 31 Regions worldwide** <br/> Geographical areas with multiple isolated AZs <br/> US East N Virginia\nContains 3 or more AZs for high availability <br/>
**Example:** us-east-1 eu-west-1]
B --> C[Region\nExample: US East N Virginia\nContains 3 or more AZs for high availability]
C --> D[Availability Zones AZs\nIsolated locations within Region\nApprox 60 miles apart\nIndependent power and networking\nExample: us-east-1a us-east-1b us-east-1c]
D --> E[Data Centers\nOne or more physical facilities per AZ\nRedundant power cooling connectivity\nHouses racks of servers storage network gear]
E --> F[Racks\nOrganized rows of server chassis\nPower distribution units PDUs\nNetwork switches per rack\nTypically 42U height]
F --> G[Servers\nIndividual physical hosts\nCPU RAM storage NICs\nRun hypervisors hosting EC2 instances\nExample: c5.xlarge on Intel Xeon]
G --> H[EC2 Instances\nVirtual machines on servers\nUser workloads run here]
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