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Elizabeth Rosalind Rebecca R Avatar Elizabeth Rosalind Rebecca R  answered Jonathan Philip Joseph Prabhu's question. 2 months ago

How does AWS officially define a "Region" from a geographical, physical, and operational standpoint?

An AWS Region is a physical location in the world where we have multiple Availability Zones.
AWS defines a Region as a fully isolated geographic area that contains multiple physically separated and redundant data centers.
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