Geographic location
Hierarchical geographic locations
Customers or departments
Equipment racks, optionally organized by group
Physical hardware models by manufacturer
Rack-mounted network equipment, servers, and other devices
Represents a set of devices which share a common control plane
Cables
Interfaces
Console
Power
Electrical circuits delivering power from panels
Electrical panels receiving utility power
Virtual routing and forwarding tables
Top-level IP allocations
IPv4 and IPv6 network assignments
IPv4 and IPv6 network assignments
Layer two domains, identified by VLAN ID
Organizations which provide circuit connectivity
Communication links for Internet transit, peering, and other services
Clusters of physical hosts in which VMs reside
Virtual compute instances running inside clusters
Collections of data and/or job files