AWS Availablity Zone
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Each AWS region has one or more availability zone.
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Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure.
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Each Availability Zone consists of one or more data centers.
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They are designed for fault isolation.
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AWS recommends replicating data and resources across availability zone for resiliency.
Resiliency is the ability of something to return to its original size and shape after being compressed or deformed.