AWS global infrastructure choices start with a hard question: where should a workload live to meet latency, fault isolation, data residency, and on-premises requirements? This course builds a practical understanding of Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations, Local Zones, and Outposts so you can justify placement decisions with real constraints. By the end, you can compare deployment locations, weigh tradeoffs, and produce a placement plan that matches workload goals and recovery targets.
The course covers Region selection for proximity, compliance, service availability, cost, and opt-in status, plus Availability Zones for fault isolation and multi-AZ resilience. It also covers edge placement with CloudFront, Local Zones for single-digit milliseconds, Outposts for hybrid workloads, and a repeatable checklist for final placement decisions.