AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is cloud region?
Cloud region: A geographic area where a cloud provider operates data centres, such as Mumbai or Hyderabad, made of several isolated availability zones. Choice of region affects latency, price, service availability and where data legally resides.
Cloud region: an example
A team picks the Mumbai region so Indian users get lower latency and data stays inside India.
Related terms
- Availability zone
- Data residency
- Multi-region deployment
- Cloud computing
More MLOps, LLMOps cloud terms
- ConfigMap
- Configuration drift
- Container layer
- Container runtime
- Continuous delivery
- Continuous training
- Data versioning
- Dependency pinning
Where you learn it
Cloud region is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.