AWS Availability Zone (AZ)

An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region.

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/

• aws ec2 describe-availability-zones
• aws ec2 describe-instances | grep AvailabilityZone
• aws rds describe-db-instances | grep MultiAZ

Related terms

• AWS region: us-east-1d
• Multi AZ: aws rds describe-db-instances | grep MultiAZ
• Resource Groups
• availability_zone Terraform aws_instance
• multi_az in Terraform aws_db_instance
• aws ec2 describe-subnets

Activities

• Best practices for converting a Single-AZ Amazon RDS instance to a Multi-AZ instance: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/best-practices-for-converting-a-single-az-amazon-rds-instance-to-a-multi-az-instance/

See also

• AWS EC2, AWS::EC2, aws ec2 [ describe-instances | describe-instance-status | run-instances | terminate-instances | stop-instances | tags | describe-vpcs | describe-addresses | describe-availability-zones | describe-subnets | import-key-pair | create-key-pair | create-vpc | create-internet-gateway | modify-instance-attribute | ec2-instance-connect | get-console-output]
• AWS Availability Zone (AZ), Terraform: availability zone, Data Source: aws_availability_zones, Single-AZ, Multi-AZ
• Region, Availability Zone (AZ), AMI, ARN, Edge Locations, CPU credits, Placement groups, AWS: Placement groups