AWS ‐ Regions | AZs
For SaaS applications, the most commonly used AWS regions are selected based on factors like low latency, high availability, compliance, and cost optimization. Below are the most popular AWS regions for SaaS deployments:
🔹 Best for: Compliance and SaaS growth in the Middle East & Africa.
✅ User Base Location → Choose a region closest to your users to reduce latency.
✅ Compliance Requirements → For GDPR, use eu-central-1 (Germany); for financial data, us-east-1 (Virginia).
✅ Cost Consideration → us-east-1 (Virginia) and us-west-2 (Oregon) are the cheapest.
✅ AWS Services Availability → New AWS services are first launched in us-east-1.
✅ Disaster Recovery (DR) → Use multiple regions (e.g., Primary: us-east-1, DR: us-west-2).
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