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I'm really curious about the power infrastructure they use within their DC to guarantee availability. Even when I was in a very nice part of Delhi there were fr

I'm really curious about the power infrastructure they use within their DC to guarantee availability. Even when I was in a very nice part of Delhi there were frequent brown outs.

spikengineer 10y ago
Industries get 24 hrs guaranteed power. It is the regular consumers that get timed power cuts. I am on a industrial connection and I only faced two failure power cuts in this year and I live in a major Indian city.
- avinashv 10y ago
  Completely false. Across three factories in two states, I don't get "guaranteed" power. In fact, the only place I see basically uninterrupted power is in the nice parts of residential Bombay.
manojlds 10y ago
IT parks manage with more regular power and, of course, generators. I am sure a DC like this will be able to manage in India :)
jedberg 10y ago
All of their datacenters around the world have batteries and diesel generators. They don't trust the local power anywhere.
- thejosh 10y ago
  In Australia, AWS was beaten by actual clouds recently. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-chaos-mostly-over-after-amazon-web-services-hit-by-power-outage-during-sydney-storm-20160605-gpc707.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-chaos-m...
intended 10y ago
Well, my firm has sold Gensets to Amazon and other Data centers. (I don't know if we sold to their Mumbai AWS facility) Every data center keeps on site generators to deal with power shortages. I think its part of the standard design paradigm (world wide). Mumbai has stable power whereas in Delhi brownouts are relatively common occurrences. Its kinda funny to have this pop up anywhere on HN.
piyushpr134 10y ago
Mumbai has no power issue. In the last 10 years I have lived here, I have never witnessed load shedding. It is because last mile is served by private power companies namely Tata and Reliance power. This makes power slightly costlier but a hell lot more reliable. We also have underground cables to the last mile so there are no surges

I'm really curious about the power infrastructure they use within their DC to guarantee availability. Even when I was in a very nice part of Delhi there were frequent brown outs.

spikengineer 10y ago

Industries get 24 hrs guaranteed power. It is the regular consumers that get timed power cuts. I am on a industrial connection and I only faced two failure power cuts in this year and I live in a major Indian city.

avinashv 10y ago
Completely false. Across three factories in two states, I don't get "guaranteed" power. In fact, the only place I see basically uninterrupted power is in the nice parts of residential Bombay.

manojlds 10y ago

IT parks manage with more regular power and, of course, generators. I am sure a DC like this will be able to manage in India :)

jedberg 10y ago

All of their datacenters around the world have batteries and diesel generators. They don't trust the local power anywhere.

thejosh 10y ago
In Australia, AWS was beaten by actual clouds recently. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-chaos-mostly-over-after-amazon-web-services-hit-by-power-outage-during-sydney-storm-20160605-gpc707.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-chaos-m...

intended 10y ago

Well, my firm has sold Gensets to Amazon and other Data centers. (I don't know if we sold to their Mumbai AWS facility) Every data center keeps on site generators to deal with power shortages. I think its part of the standard design paradigm (world wide). Mumbai has stable power whereas in Delhi brownouts are relatively common occurrences. Its kinda funny to have this pop up anywhere on HN.

piyushpr134 10y ago

Mumbai has no power issue. In the last 10 years I have lived here, I have never witnessed load shedding. It is because last mile is served by private power companies namely Tata and Reliance power. This makes power slightly costlier but a hell lot more reliable. We also have underground cables to the last mile so there are no surges