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Region

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

/ˈriːdʒən/nounCore term

In cloud computing & devops, region means: A geographic area where a cloud provider has a group of data centers, such as Frankfurt or Ireland. You choose the region where your resources run.

In Turkish: bölge, bulut bölgesi

How it is used

Each region has a code, such as eu-central-1 (AWS, Frankfurt). Teams choose a region for lower latency to users, lower price or to keep data in a certain country for legal reasons. Each region contains several availability zones.

Example sentences

  1. We deploy to two regions, so a full outage in Frankfurt won't take us offline.

  2. The bucket was created in the wrong region, which is why downloads were so slow.

Common collocations

  • choose a region
  • multi-region
  • region outage
  • deploy to a region
  • cross-region replication
  • availability zoneOne of several separate data center locations inside a cloud region, each with its own power and network, so a failure in one should not affect the others.
  • cloud providerA company that owns large data centers and rents computing, storage, networking and other services to customers over the internet.
  • latencyThe time a request or piece of data takes to travel through a system and get a response, usually measured in milliseconds.
  • disaster recoveryThe plans, tools and processes for bringing systems and data back after a major event, such as losing a whole data center or region.

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