Glossary: Virtualization and Cloud Basics

region

Also written: regions, us-west-2, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

A separate geographic area of a provider's data centers, such as us-west-2 (Oregon). Resources live in one region, and the same command in another region sees none of them.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 4: What the cloud is
Chapter 5: Service models and shared responsibility
Chapter 6: Regions, zones and scaling
Chapter 8: Cloud storage
Chapter 10: APIs, the CLI and Infrastructure as Code
Chapter 12: Project: the shop on a local cloud

Related terms

availability zone (AZ)edge location