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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

For example, when a disastrous earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, many customers in Japan came to AWS to take advantage of the multiple Availability Zones. In addition, they also backed up their data from the AWS Tokyo Region to AWS Singapore Region as an additional measure for business continuity.