Amazon Web Service

Amazon Web Service is the most used public cloud by a fair amount and it's often chosen due to their huge amount of available services as well as the huge amount of documentation, answered questions, and articles that can be expected from such a popular product.

Since AWS' goal is to be a complete virtual data center provider (and much more) we will need to create and manage our network as we would do if we had to set up a real data center. Obviously, we will not need to cable stuff since it's a virtual data center. Due to this, a few lines of an Ansible playbook will be enough.

AWS global infrastructure

Amazon has always been pretty discrete about sharing the location or the exact number of data centers that their cloud is actually composed of. While I'm writing this, AWS counts 13 regions (with 4 more regions already planned) with a total of 35 Availability Zones (AZ) and more than 50 edge locations. Amazon defines a region as a physical location in the world where we ...