Choosing a region
As discussed earlier, a VPC within AWS is the high-level abstraction of your overall network. You can have multiple VPCs, which is similar to the concept of managing several physical networks. In fact, we already have VPCs created for us in our account, so we won’t need to create one. In the future, keep in mind that creating additional VPCs is an option, should you ever need to have more than one. In our account, we have a default VPC in each Region, so choosing which one to utilize comes down to which region is most appropriate for our use.
For production use, you’ll want to create instances in AWS that are as close to your customer as you can get. For example, let’s say that the customers that your organization markets to are primarily located in the Eastern United States. There’s a region available within AWS that is available that’s labeled US East, so that would be an obvious choice in that scenario. You’re not...