AVAILABILITY OF AWS
Amazon provides AWS from various data centers spread across zones named as availability zones (AZ) spread across the world.
Amazon Elastic Block Store provides block level storage volumes for persistent data storage to be used with EC2, while Amazon Elastic File System offers managed cloud file storage.
Businesses can choose one or more AZs either for compliance issues, or to be able to reach their customers easily.
An AWS customer can put up VMs and replicate data in different AZs in order to achieve high reliable infrastructure capable of withstanding disasters or failures of an individual server or even an entire data center.