An Availability Zone (AZ) commonly means a collection of Compute Items and associated networking, storage, connectivity etc at a single location. Larger deployments may have more than one Availability Zone at a single Location.
When Beeks users the term Availability Zone, we are referring to a collection of IT resources which exist in the same Beeks failure domain. So, for example, two different Proximity Cloud cabinets will be in the same Availability Zone if they share any of the same underlying infrastructure (e.g. network switches).
Beeks offers three kinds of AZ:
Shared The AZ and network hardware is shared with other customers. It is hosted in a Beeks datacenter.
Private The AZ isn’t shared with other customers and the network hardware is mostly dedicated. Hosted in a Beeks datacenter.
Proximity Cloud The AZ isn’t shared with other customers, the network hardware is dedicated, and it can be hosted anywhere. The AZ can be multi-tenanted.