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An organization is designing a highly available application and wants to understand the relationship between AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZs). Which two statements correctly describe how these global infrastructure components are structured and connected?

  1. An Availability Zone consists of one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.Answer
  2. An AWS Region contains multiple, physically separated and isolated Availability Zones.Answer
  3. C
    Availability Zones in different AWS Regions are connected directly via low-latency private fiber links by default.
  4. D
    An Availability Zone represents a large geographic area that contains multiple AWS Regions.
  5. E
    AWS automatically replicates all EC2 instances and data across all Availability Zones in a Region by default.

Answer

An AWS Region is a geographic area that houses multiple, isolated Availability Zones, and each Availability Zone consists of one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.
An AWS Region consists of multiple, physically separated and isolated Availability Zones to ensure high availability. Each Availability Zone consists of one or more discrete data centers equipped with redundant power, cooling, and networking.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the relationship between Regions and Availability Zones (AZs).
AWS Regions contain multiple, isolated Availability Zones, which are composed of one or more physical data centers.
To verify the architectural hierarchy of AWS Global Infrastructure.
2
Evaluate the connectivity and replication behavior.
Low-latency connections are within a Region, and replication across AZs must be configured by the user.
To rule out incorrect options claiming cross-region default low-latency connectivity or automatic replication.

Key Concept

AWS Regions and Availability Zones Architecture
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