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Availability Zone

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Definition

Isolated data centers within a cloud region that provide backup and redundancy. Like having multiple bank branches in the same city - if one has problems, others keep working.

Real-World Example

AWS regions typically have 3-6 availability zones, so if one zone has a power outage, your application continues running in another zone.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

All four refer to physically separate locations within a larger geographic area used to design for high availability. AWS and Azure call them Availability Zones; Google Cloud uses Zones within a Region; OCI uses Availability Domains (and also Fault Domains for additional separation within an AD).

AWS
Availability Zone
AZ
Availability Zone
GCP
Zone
OCI
Availability Domain

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