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Glossary: Cloud and Data Security

Region

Also written: regions, us-west-2, us-west-1, us-east-1, eu-central-1

A cloud provider's group of data centers in one area, such as us-west-2 (Oregon). Choosing regions decides which country's laws apply to the data.

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Data sovereigntyMulti-region trail