Building a Scalable Federated Hybrid Cloud
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 27/10/2015

Amazon Web Services has had regions across the globe and Availability Zones (AZ) as standard offering for years. The tiering and choice of locations is best practice that OpenStack architects should embrace as they build a blueprint for geo-distributed OpenStack clouds. The notion of different regions and AZ allows smaller "blast zones" in the event of outages plus enables use cases such as active/standby clouds, tenant data replication and new tiered application architectures. All of these use