availability zone

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availability zone

noun availability zones

A subset of computing infrastructure that shares no service-critical components (including power, cooling and access) with any other availability zone. Availability zones are typically geographically separated from one another, to prevent local disasters from affecting more than one of them.

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@misc{availability_zone_2026,
  title = {availability zone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/availability%20zone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}