Swift’s default configuration is currently designed to work in a single region, where a region is defined as a group of machines with high-bandwidth, low-latency links between them. However, configuration options exist that make running a performant
Generally a region is composed of a group of nodes with high-bandwidth, low-latency links between them. This almost always translates to the same geographical location. Multiple such clusters can be meshed together to create a multi-region (global) cluste