Regions Overview
A region is an isolated area containing dedicated resources. To achieve the greatest possible fault tolerance and stability, resources are not shared or replicated in other regions.
A region is created when you create the first VA pod in that region. After a region has been created, you can add more VA pods to it. A region is created based on its AWS configuration template. Whenever AWS updates a region template version, Cisco Global Launchpad notifies you that you need to update the corresponding region in Cisco Global Launchpad. You are notified of the region version update when you first log in to Cisco Global Launchpad or when you change the region view.
When you delete all the VA pods from a region, the region is not automatically deleted. Cisco Global Launchpad permits empty regions. You can always create other VA pods in it later. However, if you no longer want to use an empty region and you want to delete it, you must do so manually using Cisco Global Launchpad.