AvailabilityZone
Availability Zone · Cost and Usage dataset
- Feature level
- Recommended
- Data type
- String
- Allows nulls
- Yes
- Column type
- Dimension
What it is
An availability zone is a host-provider-assigned identifier for a physically separated and isolated area within a Region that provides high availability and fault tolerance. Availability Zone is commonly used for scenarios like analyzing cross-zone data transfer usage and the corresponding cost based on where resources are deployed.
Requirements (3)
Verbatim from the specification. These are the statements the validator checks against.
- AvailabilityZone MUST be of type String.
- AvailabilityZone MUST conform to StringHandling requirements.
- AvailabilityZone MUST be null when a charge is not specific to an availability zone.
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