AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Global Infrastructure Why make a global applications? A global application is an application deployed in multiple geographies. On AWS: this could be Regions and / or Edge Locations Decreased Latency Latency is the time it takes for a network packet to reach a server It takes time for a packet from Asia to reach the US Deploy your applications closer to your users to decrease latency, better experience Disaster Recovery (DR) If as AWS region goes down (earthquake, storms, power shutdown, politics)... You can fall-over to another region and have your application still working A DR plan is important to increase the availability of your application Attack protection: ditribution global infrastructure is harder to attack Global Applications in AWS Global DNS: Route 53 Great to route users to the closest deployment with least latency Great for disaster recovery strategies Global Content Delivery Network (CDN) : CloudFront Replicate part of your application to AWS Edge Location...