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I'm glad they compartment their data centers. Having one data center for everything would be a big fail. I say this because you would be surprised at how many c

• Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  They shouldn't advertise as 'cloud' then. I know it's a marketing buzzword and no guarantee for redundancy or anything, but still. a 'cloud' provider should have, at the very least, multiple redundant datacenters in one availability zone.
  • Clewza313 6y ago
    Literally no cloud does that. An availability zone is pretty much by definition a single point of failure, and you need to architect accordingly.
  • marcinzm 6y ago
    That's why you have multiple availability zones. Those are the physically separate locations that you have visibility into and can spread your infrastructure across. Having multiple data centers in a single availability without visibility into where your systems are is fairly useless. And if you do have visibility then you now simply have more availability zones so why bother renaming things.
• remram 6y ago
  Most cloud providers have availability regions and zones, with some services specifically having multi-region/multi-zone options (usually with extra cost). Is there any provider that hides this?