Detailed geographic information for all Amazon Web Services Regions and Availability Zones is now available
Starting today, you can get more granular visibility of geographic location information for Amazon Web Services Regions and Amazon Web Services Availability Zones (AZs). This detailed information will help you choose the Regions and AZs that align with your regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements.
We continue to expand the Amazon Web Services global infrastructure to meet your business requirements and now have 114 AZs across 36 Regions. We have announced plans to add 12 more AZs and four Regions in New Zealand, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the Amazon Web Services European Sovereign Cloud.
One of the things we’ve learned from our customers is the need to have more visibility into the specific location of infrastructure within an Amazon Web Services Region. This is important for customers in highly regulated industries such as the financial industry or gaming, where there are specific requirements for the physical placement of infrastructure. For example, FanDuel, a leading sports gaming company based in the U.S., is scaling into new markets across the U.S. and Canada. They are taking advantage of the improved geographic transparency to make more informed decisions and ensure they’re meeting data residency requirements as they scale their business quickly.
Geographies for Amazon Web Services Regions
To find the geographic information for your Region, you can visit the Amazon Web Services Global Infrastructure Regions and Availability Zones page. Once you navigate to this page, you can choose any tab on the map and scroll to the bottom to review the geographic information for each Region. See the following image for an example showing the North America Regions. As would be expected, the infrastructure for the US West (Oregon) Region is located in the United States of America, and the Canada (Central) Region is located in Canada.
Geographies for Availability Zones
To find the specific geographic information for an AZ, you can visit the Amazon Web Services Regions and Availability Zones page in Amazon Web Services Documentation. Choose the Region you’re interested in and you’ll find a table showing you the geography for that Region. As you see in the following screenshot, the infrastructure of the AZ with AZ ID use1-az1 is located in Virginia, United States of America.
Stay tuned
We will update these pages to reflect new geographic information as we continue to grow our Amazon Web Services Global infrastructure footprint and add more Amazon Web Services Regions and AZs.
Quick links
To learn more, visit the Amazon Web Services Global Infrastructure Regions and Availability Zones page or Amazon Web Services Regions and Availability Zones in Amazon Web Services Documentation, and send feedback to Amazon Web Services re:Post or through your usual Amazon Support contacts.
– Prasad
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Prasad Rao
Prasad Rao is a Principal Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services based out of UK. His focus areas are .NET Application Modernization and Windows Workloads on Amazon Web Services. He leverages his experience to help Amazon Web Services Partners across EMEA for their long term technical enablement to build scalable architecture on Amazon Web Services. He also mentors diverse people who are new to cloud and would like to get started on Amazon Web Services.
