region
termcloud
A geographic area where a cloud provider runs data centres, and the boundary most cloud services do not cross by default.
It is the unit that matters for both law and failure: data residency is argued in terms of regions, and a regional outage is the largest failure a single provider account routinely experiences. The trap is assuming multi-region is a checkbox - it means duplicated data with a consistency decision, duplicated deployment pipelines, and an egress bill for the traffic between them.
Also known as: cloud region