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What are regions and availability zones?
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Regions & AZs
Region is geographic area (ap-south-1). Availability Zone is isolated datacenter within region—deploy multi-AZ for HA.
- Latency: pick region near users
- Compliance: data residency laws
AZ failure is rare but real—multi-AZ RDS, not single AZ prod.