Where are AWS EC2 availability zones exactly?

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Parris picture Parris · Feb 18, 2013 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I am trying to create a server with the lowest possible latency for my target audience. I get the difference between regions and availability zones (I think). It sounds like the availability zones are in different cities? Where are they exactly? I tried scouring google for the past hour and I haven't been able to find anything.

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user1596371 picture user1596371 · Feb 18, 2013

The best that Amazon provide in terms of public information is on their EC2 FAQ. If you want the lowest possible latency can you not just ping servers in each availability zone from your target location and find the lowest latency that way? There's no guarantee that physical proximity == lowest latency anyway.

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