#### Getting Your Head in the Cloud - Learn the service categories - Read the AWS Services white-paper #### Introducing Cloud Computing and Deployment Models - Six advantages of the cloud - Cloud benefits and terminology - IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS - Deployment models: Private, Public, and Hybrid #### Exploring Regions and Availability Zones ##### Region - An AWS region is a physical location (e.g., the **United States**) grouped by geographical locations (e.g., **US East** or **US West**) which can include several regions (e.g., the **Ohio** region, or **N. Virginia** region) within each location - Resources are isolated and not automatically replicated across regions - Regions consist of multiple *Availability Zones* - Regions are *global* ##### Availability Zone (AZ) - *Availability Zone:* one or more *physical data centers* with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region - *AZs* are *fault-tolerant* and allow for *high availability* (via multi-AZ deployments) #### Rewiewing Edge