These services are managed at the global level and are not tied to a specific AWS Region:
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Global user, group, and role management
- Route 53 – Global DNS resolution and domain management
- CloudFront – Global content delivery network (CDN)
- AWS WAF – Global web application firewall for protection against common exploits
Region-Scoped Services
These services operate within a specific AWS Region and must be deployed separately in each region where they are needed:
- Amazon EC2 – Compute instances (IaaS)
- Elastic Beanstalk – Managed application platform (PaaS)
- AWS Lambda – Serverless function execution (FaaS)
- Amazon Rekognition – Image and video analysis (SaaS)