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List of AWS availability zones for each AWS region

AWS Regions

Region Code Region Name Availability Zones
us-east-1* N. Virginia us-east-1a us-east-1b us-east-1c us-east-1d us-east-1e
us-east-2 Ohio us-east-2a us-east-2b us-east-2c
us-west-1* N. California us-west-1a us-west-1b us-west-1c
us-west-2 Oregon us-west-2a us-west-2b us-west-2c
eu-west-1 Ireland eu-west-1a eu-west-1b eu-west-1c
eu-central-1 Frankfurt eu-central-1a eu-central-1b
ap-northeast-1* Tokyo ap-northeast-1a ap-northeast-1b ap-northeast-1c
ap-northeast-2 Seoul ap-northeast-2a ap-northeast-2c
ap-southeast-1 Singapore ap-southeast-1a ap-southeast-1b
ap-southeast-2 Sydney ap-southeast-2a ap-southeast-2b ap-southeast-2c
ap-south-1 Mumbai ap-south-1a ap-south-1b
sa-east-1 Sao Paulo sa-east-1a sa-east-1b sa-east-1c

* To ensure that resources are distributed across the Availability Zones for these regions, they may differ for each AWS account. You can run aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region $REGION to be sure which ones are available to you.

NOTE: This data pertains to the AWS EC2 service, other AWS services (e.g. RDS, S3, ...) may differ
Information correct as of October 18, 2016.

@niedrist
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niedrist commented Nov 4, 2022

Note that this list is outdated

@JohnAtOlo
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Very outdated. us-west-1 only has 2 AZs by default in all my accounts. Best to just use the cli to describe AZs.

@kkhatua
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kkhatua commented Aug 22, 2023

This looks more accurate: https://www.aws-services.info/regions.html

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