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What Amazon Web Services (AWS) term describes a grouping of at least one datacenter with redundant power, high speed connections to other data centres and the Internet?

The correct answer is B. Availability zone. An AWS Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete datacenters with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities within a Region.

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Question

What Amazon Web Services (AWS) term describes a grouping of at least one datacenter with redundant power, high speed connections to other data centres and the Internet?

Options

  • AManagement subnet
  • BAvailability zone
  • CRegion
  • Dvirtual private cloud

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    82% (28)
  • C
    12% (4)
  • D
    3% (1)

Why each option

An AWS Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete datacenters with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities within a Region.

AManagement subnet

A management subnet is a logical network subdivision within a VPC used to host administrative resources, not a physical datacenter grouping.

BAvailability zoneCorrect

An Availability Zone is defined as one or more discrete datacenters with redundant power and high-speed private networking, physically separated from other AZs within the same Region. Each AZ is engineered to be isolated from failures in other AZs while being interconnected via low-latency links. This physical and logical isolation makes AZs the correct unit matching the description in the question.

CRegion

A Region is a geographic area containing multiple Availability Zones, not a single datacenter or group of datacenters itself.

Dvirtual private cloud

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated virtual network within AWS, not a physical datacenter or infrastructure construct.

Concept tested: AWS Availability Zone physical infrastructure definition

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html

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#AWS#availability zone#datacenter#cloud infrastructure

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