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I don't quite understand this. Aren't the availability zones denoted by a letter?

My Aurora instances are in eu-west-2a/eu-west-2b/eu-west-2c, so what is euw2-az2?



The letters are different per-account.


thanks, first time seeing that


It's so the load is evenly distributed across AZs because I bet most people just select -az-1.


As another commenters mentioned, the AZ letter different per account.


https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

“To identify the location of your resources relative to your accounts, you must use the AZ ID, which is a unique and consistent identifier for an Availability Zone. For example, use1-az1 is an AZ ID for the us-east-1 Region and it is the same location in every AWS account”

So each separate AWS account will have a different AZ name that maps to use1-az1, but use1-az1 is a region-wide constant.




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