Module 3: AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

AWS Academy Cloud Foundations

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Welcome to Module 3: AWS Global Infrastructure Overview.

Module overview
Topics Activities
• AWS Management Console clickthrough
• AWS Global Infrastructure

• AWS service and service category

overview

Knowledge check
Demo
• AWS Global Infrastructure

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This module will address the following topics:

• AWS Global Infrastructure
• AWS service and service category overview

The module includes an educator‐led demonstration that focuses on the details of the
AWS Global Infrastructure. The module also includes a hands‐on activity where you will
explore the AWS Management Console.

Finally, you will be asked to complete a knowledge check that will test your
understanding of the key concepts that are covered in this module.
Module objectives
After completing this module, you should be able to:

• Identify the difference between AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge
locations
• Identify AWS service and service categories

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After completing this module, you should be able to:

• Identify the difference between AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
• Identify AWS service and service categories
Section 1: AWS Global Infrastructure
Module 3: AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

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Introducing Section 1: AWS Global Infrastructure.

AWS Global Infrastructure
• The AWS Global Infrastructure is designed and built to deliver a flexible, reliable, scalable, and secure cloud computing
environment with high‐quality global network performance.
• AWS continually updates its global infrastructure footprint. Visit one of the following web pages for current
infrastructure information:

• AWS Global Infrastructure Map:

[Link]
infrastructure/#AWS_Global_Infrastructure_Map
Choose a circle on the map to view summary
information about the Region represented by
the circle.
• Regions and Availability Zones:
[Link]
infrastructure/regions_az/
Choose a tab to view a map of the selected
geography and a list of Regions, Edge
locations, Local zones, and Regional Caches.

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To learn more about the AWS Regions that are currently available, use one of the
following links:
• [Link]
infrastructure/#AWS_Global_Infrastructure_Map
• [Link]

These resources are updated frequently to show current and planned AWS
infrastructure.
 Educator‐Led Demo:
AWS Global
Infrastructure Details

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The educator might now choose to conduct a live demonstration of the AWS Global
Infrastructure map introduced on the previous slide. This resource provides an
interactive way to learn about the AWS Global Infrastructure. The remaining slides in this
section cover many of the same topics and go into greater detail on some topics.
AWS Regions
• An AWS Region is a geographical area.

• Data replication across Regions is controlled by

you.

• Communication between Regions uses AWS

backbone network infrastructure.

• Each Region provides full redundancy and

connectivity to the network.

• A Region typically consists of two or more

Availability Zones.
Example: London Region

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The AWS Cloud infrastructure is built around Regions. AWS has 22 Regions worldwide.
An AWS Region is a physical geographical location with one or more Availability Zones.
Availability Zones in turn consist of one or more data centers.

To achieve fault tolerance and stability, Regions are isolated from one another. Resources
in one Region are not automatically replicated to other Regions. When you store data in
a specific Region, it is not replicated outside that Region.

It is your responsibility to replicate data across Regions, if your business needs require it.

AWS Regions that were introduced before March 20, 2019 are enabled by default.
Regions that were introduced after March 20, 2019—such as Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
and Middle East (Bahrain)—are disabled by default. You must enable these Regions
before you can use them. You can use the AWS Management Console to enable or
disable a Region.

Some Regions have restricted access. An Amazon AWS (China) account provides access
to the Beijing and Ningxia Regions only. To learn more about AWS in China, see:
[Link] The isolated AWS GovCloud (US)
Region is designed to allow US government agencies and customers to move sensitive
workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance
requirements.

For accessibility: Snapshot from the [Link] website that shows a picture of
downtown London including the Tower Bridge and the Shard. It notes that there are
three Availability Zones in the London region. End of accessibility description.

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Selecting a Region

Data governance, legal

requirements

Proximity to customers
(latency)
Determine the right Region for
your services, applications, and Services available within
the Region
data based on these factors

Costs (vary by Region)

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There are a few factors that you should consider when you select the optimal Region or
Regions where you store data and use AWS services.

One essential consideration is data governance and legal requirements. Local laws
might require that certain information be kept within geographical boundaries. Such
laws might restrict the Regions where you can offer content or services. For example,
consider the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive.

All else being equal, it is generally desirable to run your applications and store your data
in a Region that is as close as possible to the user and systems that will access them. This
will help you reduce latency. CloudPing is one website that you can use to test latency
between your location and all AWS Regions. To learn more about CloudPing, see:
[Link]

Keep in mind that not all services are available in all Regions. To learn more, see:
[Link]
services/?p=tgi&loc=4.

Finally, there is some variation in the cost of running services, which can depend on
which Region you choose. For example, as of this writing, running an On‐Demand
[Link] size Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Linux instance in the US
East (Ohio) Region costs $0.0416 per hour, but running the same instance in the Asia
Pacific (Tokyo) Region costs $0.0544 per hour.

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Availability Zones
• Each Region has multiple Availability Zones.
AWS Cloud
• Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of
Region eu‐west‐1
the AWS infrastructure.
Availability Zone eu‐west‐1a
• Availability Zones consist of discrete data centers
Data center
• They are designed for fault isolation
Data center
• They are interconnected with other Availability Zones by using
high‐speed private networking Data center
• You choose your Availability Zones.
Availability Zone eu‐west‐1b
• AWS recommends replicating data and resources across
Availability Zones for resiliency.
Availability Zone eu‐west‐1c

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Each AWS Region has multiple, isolated locations that are known as Availability Zones.

Each Availability Zone provides the ability to operate applications and databases that are
more highly available, fault‐tolerant, and scalable than would be possible with a single
data center. Each Availability Zone can include multiple data centers (typically three), and
at full‐scale, they can include hundreds of thousands of servers. They are fully isolated
partitions of the AWS Global Infrastructure. Availability Zones have their own power
infrastructure, and they are physically separated by many kilometers from other
Availability Zones—though all Availability Zones are within 100 km of each other.

All Availability Zones are interconnected with high‐bandwidth, low‐latency networking

over fully redundant, dedicated fiber that provides high‐throughput between Availability
Zones. The network accomplishes synchronous replication between Availability Zones.

Availability Zones help build highly available applications. When an application is

partitioned across Availability Zones, companies are better isolated and protected from
issues such as lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes, and more.

You are responsible for selecting the Availability Zones where your systems will reside.
Systems can span multiple Availability Zones. AWS recommends replicating across
Availability Zones for resiliency. You should design your systems to survive the temporary
or prolonged failure of an Availability Zone if a disaster occurs.

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AWS data centers
• AWS data centers are designed for
security.
• Data centers are where the data resides
and data processing occurs.
• Each data center has redundant power,
networking, and connectivity, and is
housed in a separate facility.
• A data center typically has 50,000 to
80,000 physical servers.

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The foundation for the AWS infrastructure is the data centers. Customers do not specify
a data center for the deployment of resources. Instead, an Availability Zone is the most
granular level of specification that a customer can make. However, a data center is the
location where the actual data resides. Amazon operates state‐of‐the‐art, highly
available data centers. Although rare, failures can occur that affect the availability of
instances in the same location. If you host all your instances in a single location that is
affected by such a failure, none of your instances will be available.

Data centers are securely designed with several factors in mind:

Each location is carefully evaluated to mitigate environmental risk.

• Data centers have a redundant design that anticipates and tolerates failure while
maintaining service levels.
• To ensure availability, critical system components are backed up across multiple
Availability Zones.
• To ensure capacity, AWS continuously monitors service usage to deploy infrastructure
to support availability commitments and requirements.
• Data center locations are not disclosed and all access to them is restricted.
• In case of failure, automated processes move data traffic away from the affected area.

AWS uses custom network equipment sourced from multiple original device
manufacturers (ODMs). ODMs design and manufacture products based on specifications
from a second company. The second company then rebrands the products for sale.
Points of Presence
• AWS provides a global network of
Points of Presence locations
• Consists of edge locations and a
much smaller number of
Regional edge caches
• Used with Amazon CloudFront
• A global Content Delivery Network
(CDN), that delivers content to end
users with reduced latency

• Regional edge caches used for

content with infrequent access.

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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) used to distribute content to

end users to reduce latency. Amazon Route 53 is a Domain Name System (DNS) service.
Requests going to either one of these services will be routed to the nearest edge
location automatically in order to lower latency.

AWS Points of Presence are located in most of the major cities around the world. By
continuously measuring internet connectivity, performance and computing to find the
best way to route requests, the Points of Presence deliver a better near real‐time user
experience. They are used by many AWS services, including Amazon CloudFront, Amazon
Route 53, AWS Shield, and AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) services.

Regional edge caches are used by default with Amazon CloudFront. Regional edge
caches are used when you have content that is not accessed frequently enough to
remain in an edge location. Regional edge caches absorb this content and provide an
alternative to that content having to be fetched from the origin server.
AWS infrastructure features
• Elasticity and scalability
Physically distinct Backup
• Elastic infrastructure; dynamic adaption of capacity generators
• Scalable infrastructure; adapts to accommodate
growth Data center Data center Data center Data center

• Fault‐tolerance Data center Data center Data center Data center

Availability Zone Availability Zone

• Continues operating properly in the presence of a
failure
• Built‐in redundancy of components Data center Data center

Network
connectivity
• High availability Data center Data center

Availability Zone
• High level of operational performance
• Minimized downtime Uninterruptible Cooling
power supply AWS Region equipment
• No human intervention

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Now that you have a good understanding of the major components that comprise the
AWS Global Infrastructure, let's consider the benefits provided by this infrastructure.

The AWS Global Infrastructure has several valuable features:

• First, it is elastic and scalable. This means resources can dynamically adjust to
increases or decreases in capacity requirements. It can also rapidly adjust to
accommodate growth.
• Second, this infrastructure is fault tolerant, which means it has built‐in component
redundancy which enables it to continue operations despite a failed component.
• Finally, it requires minimal to no human intervention, while providing high availability
with minimal down time.
 Key takeaways • The AWS Global Infrastructure consists of Regions and
Availability Zones.

• Your choice of a Region is typically based on

compliance requirements or to reduce latency.
• Each Availability Zone is physically separate from other
Availability Zones and has redundant power,
networking, and connectivity.
• Edge locations, and Regional edge caches improve
performance by caching content closer to users.

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Some key takeaways from this section of the module include:

• The AWS Global Infrastructure consists of Regions and Availability Zones.
• Your choice of a Region is typically based on compliance requirements or to reduce
latency.
• Each Availability Zone is physically separate from other Availability Zones and has
redundant power, networking, and connectivity.
• Edge locations, and Regional edge caches improve performance by caching content
closer to users.
Section 2: AWS services and service category
overview
Module 3: AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

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Introducing Part 2: AWS Service and Service Category Overview.

AWS offers a broad set of global cloud‐based products that can be used as building
blocks for common cloud architectures. Here is a look at how these cloud based
products are organized.
AWS foundational services

Applications Virtual desktops Collaboration and sharing

Databases Analytics Application Deployment and Mobile

Cluster services management Services
computing Queuing Containers Identity
Relational
Platform Real‐time Orchestration DevOps tools Sync
Services App Streaming
NoSQL Data Resource templates Mobile
warehouse Transcoding
Usage tracking Analytics
Caching Data Email
Monitoring and logs Notifications
workflows Search

Compute (virtual,
Foundation Networking Storage (object,
automatic scaling, and
Services block, and archive)
load balancing)

Infrastructure Regions Availability Zones Edge locations

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As discussed previously, the AWS Global Infrastructure can be broken down into three
elements: Regions, Availability Zones, and Points of Presence, which include edge
locations. This infrastructure provides the platform for a broad set of services, such as
networking, storage, compute services, and databases—and these services are delivered
as an on‐demand utility that is available in seconds, with pay‐as‐you‐go pricing.

For accessibility: Marketing diagram showing infrastructure at the bottom, consisting of

Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations. The next level up is labeled Foundational
Services and includes graphics for compute, networking, and storage. That level is
highlighted. Next level up is platform services that includes databases, analytics, app
services, deployment and management, and mobile services. Top layer is labeled
applications and includes virtual desktops and collaboration and sharing. End of
accessibility description.
AWS categories of services

Analytics Application AR and VR Blockchain Business Compute

Integration Applications

Cost Customer Database Developer Tools End User Game Tech

Management Engagement Computing

Internet Machine Management and Media Services Migration and Mobile

of Things Learning Governance Transfer

Networking and Robotics Satellite Security, Identity, and Storage

Content Delivery Compliance

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AWS offers a broad set of cloud‐based services. There are 23 different product or service
categories, and each category consists of one or more services. This course will not
attempt to introduce you to each service. Rather, the focus of this course is on the
services that are most widely used and offer the best introduction to the AWS Cloud.
This course also focuses on services that are more likely to be covered in the AWS
Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

The categories that this course will discuss are highlighted on the slide: Compute, Cost
Management, Database, Management and Governance, Networking and Content
Delivery, Security, Identity, and Compliance, and Storage.

To learn more about AWS products, see Cloud Products at

[Link] All AWS products are organized into the service
categories that are shown here. For example, if you click Compute, you will see that
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is first on the list. The compute category
also lists many other products and services.

If you click Amazon EC2, it takes you to the Amazon EC2 page. Each product page
provides a detailed description of the product and lists some of its benefits.

Explore the different service groups to understand the categories and services within
them. Now that you know how to locate information about different services, this
module will discuss the highlighted service categories. The next seven slides list the
individual services —within each of the categories highlighted above—that this course
will discuss.

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Storage service category

AWS storage services

Amazon Simple Storage Amazon Elastic Block Amazon Elastic

Service (Amazon S3) Store (Amazon EBS) File System
Photo from [Link] (Amazon EFS)

Amazon Simple Storage

Service
Glacier
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AWS storage services include the services listed here, and many others.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers
scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Use it to store and protect any
amount of data for websites, mobile apps, backup and restore, archive, enterprise
applications, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and big data analytics.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is high‐performance block storage that is
designed for use with Amazon EC2 for both throughput and transaction intensive
workloads. It is used for a broad range of workloads, such as relational and non‐
relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data
analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a scalable, fully managed elastic
Network File System (NFS) file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on‐premises
resources. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes, growing and shrinking
automatically as you add and remove files. It reduces the need to provision and manage
capacity to accommodate growth.

Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low‐cost
Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long‐term backup. It is designed to
deliver 11 9s of durability, and to provide comprehensive security and compliance
capabilities to meet stringent regulatory requirements.
Compute service category

AWS Compute services

Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Amazon EC2

Auto Scaling Container Service Container Registry
Photo from [Link] (Amazon ECS)

AWS Elastic AWS Lambda Amazon Elastic AWS Fargate

Beanstalk Kubernetes Service
(Amazon EKS)
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AWS compute services include the services listed here, and many others.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable compute capacity as
virtual machines in the cloud.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enables you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances
according to conditions that you define.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high‐performance

container orchestration service that supports Docker containers.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully‐managed Docker container

registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container
images.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and
services on familiar servers such as Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Services
(IIS).

AWS Lambda enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You
pay only for the compute time that you consume. There is no charge when your code is
not running.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and
scale containerized applications that use Kubernetes on AWS.
AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run containers
without having to manage servers or clusters.

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Database service category

AWS Database services

Amazon Relational Amazon Aurora Amazon Redshift

Database Service

Amazon
DynamoDB
Photo from [Link]

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AWS database services include the services listed here, and many others.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate,
and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides resizable capacity while
automating time‐consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning,
database setup, patching, and backups.

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL‐compatible relational database. It is up to

five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard
PostgreSQL databases.

Amazon Redshift enables you to run analytic queries against petabytes of data that is
stored locally in Amazon Redshift, and directly against exabytes of data that are stored in
Amazon S3. It delivers fast performance at any scale.

Amazon DynamoDB is a key‐value and document database that delivers single‐digit

millisecond performance at any scale, with built‐in security, backup and restore, and in‐
memory caching.
Networking and content delivery service category

AWS networking
and content delivery services

Amazon VPC Elastic Load Amazon AWS Transit

Balancing CloudFront Gateway

Amazon AWS Direct AWS VPN

Route 53 Connect
Photo by Umberto on Unsplash

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AWS networking and content delivery services include the services listed here, and many
others.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to provision logically isolated
sections of the AWS Cloud.

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across

multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda
functions.

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely
delivers data, videos, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs) to
customers globally, with low latency and high transfer speeds.

AWS Transit Gateway is a service that enables customers to connect their Amazon
Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and their on‐premises networks to a single gateway.

Amazon Route 53 is a scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service designed
to give you a reliable way to route end users to internet applications. It translates names
(like [Link]) into the numeric IP addresses (like [Link]) that computers
use to connect to each other.

AWS Direct Connect provides a way to establish a dedicated private network connection
from your data center or office to AWS, which can reduce network costs and increase
bandwidth throughput.
AWS VPN provides a secure private tunnel from your network or device to the AWS
global network.

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Security, identity, and compliance service category

AWS security, identity,

and compliance services

AWS Identity and Access AWS Amazon Cognito

Management (IAM) Organizations
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

AWS Artifact AWS Key AWS Shield

Management
Service
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AWS security, identity, and compliance services include the services listed here, and
many others.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS
services and resources securely. By using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users
and groups. You can use IAM permissions to allow and deny user and group access to
AWS resources.

AWS Organizations allows you to restrict what services and actions are allowed in your
accounts.

Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign‐up, sign‐in, and access control to your web and
mobile apps.

AWS Artifact provides on‐demand access to AWS security and compliance reports and
select online agreements.

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) enables you to create and manage keys. You
can use AWS KMS to control the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services
and in your applications.
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that
safeguards applications running on AWS.

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AWS cost management service category

AWS cost management

services

AWS Cost and AWS Budgets AWS Cost

Photo by Alexander Mils on Unsplash Usage Report Explorer

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AWS cost management services include the services listed here, and others.

The AWS Cost and Usage Report contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and
usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and
reservations.

AWS Budgets enables you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or
usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

AWS Cost Explorer has an easy‐to‐use interface that enables you to visualize,
understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
Management and governance service category

AWS management and

governance services

AWS Management AWS Config Amazon AWS Auto

Console CloudWatch Scaling
Photo by Marta Branco from Pexels

AWS Command AWS Trusted AWS Well‐ AWS

Line Interface Advisor Architected Tool CloudTrail

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AWS management and governance services include the services listed here, and others.

The AWS Management Console provides a web‐based user interface for accessing your
AWS account.

AWS Config provides a service that helps you track resource inventory and changes.

Amazon CloudWatch allows you to monitor resources and applications.

AWS Auto Scaling provides features that allow you to scale multiple resources to meet
demand.

AWS Command Line Interface provides a unified tool to manage AWS services.

AWS Trusted Advisor helps you optimize performance and security.

AWS Well‐Architected Tool provides help in reviewing and improving your workloads.

AWS CloudTrail tracks user activity and API usage.

 Activity: AWS
Management Console
clickthrough

Photo by Pixabay from Pexels.

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In this educator‐led activity, you will be asked to log in to the AWS Management
Console. The activity instructions are on the next slide. You will be challenged to answer
five questions. The educator will lead the class in a discussion of each question, and
reveal the correct answers.
Hands‐on activity: AWS Management Console clickthrough

1. Launch the Sandbox hands‐on environment and connect to the AWS Management Console.
2. Explore the AWS Management Console.
A. Click the Services menu.
B. Notice how services are grouped into service categories. For example, the EC2 service appears in the Compute service category.
Question #1: Under which service category does the IAM service appear?
Question #2: Under which service category does the Amazon VPC service appear?
C. Click the Amazon VPC service. Notice that the dropdown menu in the top‐right corner displays an AWS Region (for example, it
might display N. Virginia).
D. Click the Region menu and switch to a different Region. For example, choose EU (London).
E. Click Subnets (on the left side of the screen). The Region has three subnets in it. Click the box next to one of the subnets. Notice
that the bottom half of the screen now displays details about this subnet.
Question #3: Does the subnet you selected exist at the level of the Region or at the level of the Availability Zone?
F. Click Your VPCs. An existing VPC is already selected.
Question #4: Does the VPC exist at the level of the Region or the level of the Availability Zone?
Question #5: Which services are global instead of Regional? Check Amazon EC2, IAM, Lambda, and Route 53.

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The purpose of this activity is to expose you to the AWS Management Console. You will
gain experience navigating between AWS service consoles (such as the Amazon VPC
console). You will also practice navigating to services in different service categories.
Finally, the console will help you distinguish whether a given service or service resource
is global or Regional.

Follow the instructions on the slide. After most or all students have completed the steps
document above, the educator will review the questions and answers with the whole
class.
Activity answer key
• Question #1: Under which service category does the IAM service appear?
• Answer: Security, Identity, & Compliance.

• Question #2: Under which service category does the Amazon VPC service appear?
• Answer: Networking & Content Delivery

• Question #3: Does the subnet that you selected exist at the level of the Region or the level of the Availability
Zone?
• Answer: Subnets exist at the level of the Availability Zone.

• Question #4: Does the VPC exist at the level of the Region or the level of the Availability Zone?
• Answer: VPCs exist at the Region level.

• Question #5: Which of the following services are global instead of Regional? Check Amazon EC2, IAM, Lambda,
and Route 53.
• Answer: IAM and Route 53 are global. Amazon EC2 and Lambda are Regional.

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This slide provides an answer key to the questions that were asked in the activity on the
previous slide. The educator will use this slide to lead a discussion and debrief the
hands‐on activity.
Module wrap‐up
Module 3: AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

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It’s now time to review the module and wrap up with a knowledge check and discussion
of a practice certification exam question.
Module summary
In summary, in this module you learned how to:

• Identify the difference between AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge
locations
• Identify AWS service and service categories

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In summary, in this module you learned how to:

• Identify the difference between AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
• Identify AWS service and service categories
Complete the knowledge check

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It is now time to complete the knowledge check for this module.

 Sample exam question
Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low‐latency delivery?

Choice Response

A AWS Regions

B AWS edge locations

C AWS Availability Zones

D Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

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Look at the answer choices and rule them out based on the keywords.
Sample exam question answer
Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low‐latency delivery?

The correct answer is B.

The keywords in the question are component of AWS global infrastructure, CloudFront, low‐latency.

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The following are the keywords to recognize: component of AWS global infrastructure,
CloudFront, low‐latency.

The correct answer is B

Incorrect answers:
Answer A:
Answer C
Answer D
Additional resources

• AWS Global Infrastructure: [Link]

infrastructure/

• AWS Regional Services List: [Link]

infrastructure/regional‐product‐services/

• AWS Cloud Products: [Link]

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The following resources provide more detail on the topics discussed in this module:
• AWS Global Infrastructure: [Link]
• AWS Regional Services List: [Link]
infrastructure/regional‐product‐services/
• AWS Cloud Products: [Link]
 Thank you

Corrections, feedback, or other questions?

Contact us at [Link]
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Thank you for completing this module.