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For the record according to this link, https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ AWS operates in 18 geographies (called) regions... These are not data centers. There are 55 availability zones (AZs) at AWS regions, and each AZ has at least 1 data center..12 more AZs at 4 more regions are also announced

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Also, there are over 100 AWS CloudFront POPS:

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/details/#infrastructure

And you can do compute in CloudFront POPS with Lambda@Edge:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-edge.htm...

Only node.js available in Lambda@Edge

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