Availability Zone

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
AZ
Pronunciation
/əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪti zoʊn/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Each availability zone is designed to be isolated from failures in other availability zones.
  2. Access is limited to within the same availability zone similar to a SAN in a data center.
  3. The availability zone is chosen with-z us-east-1a, because the database server is in the same region.
  4. The availability zone is something that Amazon came up with to describe the location of the server.
  5. You need to know two things : the size of your image ( in gigabytes ) and the availability zone in which you want to use the image.

Other meanings of AZ