AWS Region – Hyderabad, Now Open for Business

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Announcement

On Nov 21st 2022, AWS opened its 30th AWS Region, Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, with three Availability Zones

Location
- Telangana, India
Region API name :
- ap-south-2
Availability Zones :
1. ap-south-2a (aps2-az1)
2. ap-south-2b (aps2-az2)
3. ap-south-2c (aps2-az3)

Quick Definition

Region

Is a physical or a geographical location (Mumbai, Ohio, London, Paris and now Hyderabad) made up of two or more Availability Zones
Each region is completely isolated from the other
AWS Regions consists of multiple Availability Zones which are physically separated and isolated
You can enable and control data replication across regions.
Communication between regions happens via public internet.

Availability Zones

Group of one or more discrete data centers
Each AZ is provided with redundant power, networking, and connectivity , housed in separate facilities
Availability Zones are connected with low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant network Availability Zones helps your production environments with highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable infrastructure than would be possible from a single data center

Enabling Hyderabad Region

Please note by default you may not see the new region enabled, you will have to enable the region from your account settings, Details below

Click on your Account id on top right corner
Select " Account"
Scroll Down to section " AWS Regions"
Look for Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region and select Enable

Select Enable region on next screen

Once enabled it will take few sec to get activated...

You can click on refresh icon to see the changes

after successfully enabling the region you should be able to see the Hyderabad under your region selection

Availability Zones:

New AWS region has 3 Availability Zones

Surely, I wanted to try few services and I launched an EC2 instance and created S3 bucket.

EC2 instance in Hyderabad Region

S3 bucket in Hyderabad Region

If its Hyderabad than how can one not bring up biryani :)

AWS Services in Hyderabad Region:

In the new Hyderabad Region, youcan useC5,C5d, C6g,M5,M5d,M6gd,R5,R5d, R6g, I3,I3en, T3, and T4g instances, anduse a long list of AWS services including: Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppConfig, AWS Application Auto Scaling, Amazon Aurora, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Config, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Cloud Control API, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EMR, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Load Balancing Network (NLB), Amazon EventBridge, AWS Fargate, AWS Health Dashboard, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Lambda, AWS Marketplace, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Redshift, Amazon Route 53, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon S3 Glacier, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), AWS Step Functions, AWS Support API, Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF), AWS Systems Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, VM Import/Export, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS VPN, and AWS X-Ray.

With this launch, AWS now spans 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic Regions around the world, with three new Regions launched in 2022, including the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, and the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. AWS also announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand.