5 Things To Consider When Choosing Your AWS Region

How to figure out the right region for your Amazon Web Services

Giorgos Myrianthous
Better Programming
Published in
4 min readMay 17, 2021

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Amazon Web Services is a global service that is spread across 25 geographic regions with over 80 availability zones. There are plans to launch five additional regions and more than 15 new availability zones in the near future.

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