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availability zone

availability zone noun: a subset of computing infrastructure that shares no service-critical components (including power, cooling and access) with any other availability zone.

Noun

availability zone (plural availability zones)

  1. (cloud computing) 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.

Forms of availability zone

pluralavailability zones

Questions about availability zone

What does availability zone mean?
Availability zone means a subset of computing infrastructure that shares no service-critical components (including power, cooling and access) with any other availability zone.
What part of speech is availability zone?
Availability zone is a noun.
What is the plural of availability zone?
The plural of availability zone is availability zones.

Words near availability zone in the dictionary

  1. availability bias
  2. availability biases
  3. availability cascade
  4. availability cascades
  5. availability heuristic
  6. availability zone
  7. available
  8. available energies
  9. available energy
  10. available light
  11. available seat-mile

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