- A region is a set of datacenters deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network
Choosing a region
- Location
- Choose a region closest to your users to minimize latency
- Features
- Some features arent in all regions.
- If you need a specific feature, some regions may be unavailable
- Price
- The price of services vary from region to region
Paired region
- Each region is paired
- Paired within the same geographical zone except Brazil South which is paired to South Central US
- Outage failover
- If the primary region has an outage, you can failover to the secondary region
- Planned updates
- Only one region in a pair is updated at any one time
- Replication
- Some services used pair regions for replication