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...and the part you actually care about which they don't mention in the post: The new region is 'us-west-2' and has two availability zones. EDIT: Here are the

by dsl 15y ago

...and the part you actually care about which they don't mention in the post: The new region is 'us-west-2' and has two availability zones. EDIT: Here are the two sites that make up the availability zone. (the 'a' and 'b' monikers are randomized between AWS accounts, so it dosen't make sense to label them as such) Umatilla: http://g.co/maps/yd8de http://g.co/maps/yd8de Boardman: http://g.co/maps/xuhdg http://g.co/maps/xuhdg (It is not on sat view, between Columbia River Processing and the power substation to the east)

davidw 15y ago
That's a pretty drab bit of Oregon. The Dalles and Prineville are nice places in their own ways, but way out north east it's pretty much just hot (or cold, in the winter), dry and flat. Pretty boring...
- msisk6 15y ago
  Flat and boring with cheap land, abundant hydro and wind power, and low-humidity -- makes a good place for datacenters. Google, Amazon and Facebook are already here with a few more in the works. I just moved to Texas from Oregon and folks here are astonished when they learn that the eastern two-thirds of Oregon is mostly desert; most folks think of Portland and the coast when they conjure up images of Oregon, but it's a really big state and the part east of the Cascades is different.
  - davidw 15y ago
    > Google, Amazon and Facebook are already here with a few more in the works. Err... right, that's what I was referring to with my comment about The Dalles and Prineville (Free Beef!), which are very different places from the Hermiston area where the two AWS centers are supposedly located. The Dalles and Prineville are both fairly close to some decent sized mountains, the former being at the base of Mt. Hood, and the latter being located just to the west of the Ochoco Mountains. > it's a really big state and the part east of the Cascades is different. Yep, there are some really fascinating bits of country there, and much of it is empty: http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/31/the-wild-west http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/31/the-wild-west Some other favorite places to go see: Fort Rock, and Steens Mountain (one of the emptiest bits of the US outside of Alaska).
    - msisk6 15y ago
      Yeah, it's a very cool region. I worked in Bend for a few years and got the chance to explore a lot of Eastern Oregon. On my drive east to Texas I actually drove by Steens Mountain and stopped in for burgers and ice cream at Fields Station. Very remote and beautiful country.
jcdavis 15y ago
that first one looks like a jail to me, not a datacenter (note the "Two Rivers Correction Institute" label) Or is it somewhere else nearby?
- dsl 15y ago
  You are correct. It looks like the datacenter is actually the construction site to the northwest of the jail. http://g.co/maps/gk8py http://g.co/maps/gk8py I have the addresses, but pulling them out from a satellite photo is a bit harder. :)
  - jcdavis 15y ago
    No worries, appreciate the work figuring out the locations

by dsl 15y ago

davidw 15y ago

That's a pretty drab bit of Oregon. The Dalles and Prineville are nice places in their own ways, but way out north east it's pretty much just hot (or cold, in the winter), dry and flat. Pretty boring...

msisk6 15y ago
Flat and boring with cheap land, abundant hydro and wind power, and low-humidity -- makes a good place for datacenters. Google, Amazon and Facebook are already here with a few more in the works. I just moved to Texas from Oregon and folks here are astonished when they learn that the eastern two-thirds of Oregon is mostly desert; most folks think of Portland and the coast when they conjure up images of Oregon, but it's a really big state and the part east of the Cascades is different.
- davidw 15y ago
  > Google, Amazon and Facebook are already here with a few more in the works. Err... right, that's what I was referring to with my comment about The Dalles and Prineville (Free Beef!), which are very different places from the Hermiston area where the two AWS centers are supposedly located. The Dalles and Prineville are both fairly close to some decent sized mountains, the former being at the base of Mt. Hood, and the latter being located just to the west of the Ochoco Mountains. > it's a really big state and the part east of the Cascades is different. Yep, there are some really fascinating bits of country there, and much of it is empty: http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/31/the-wild-west http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/31/the-wild-west Some other favorite places to go see: Fort Rock, and Steens Mountain (one of the emptiest bits of the US outside of Alaska).
  - msisk6 15y ago
    Yeah, it's a very cool region. I worked in Bend for a few years and got the chance to explore a lot of Eastern Oregon. On my drive east to Texas I actually drove by Steens Mountain and stopped in for burgers and ice cream at Fields Station. Very remote and beautiful country.

jcdavis 15y ago

that first one looks like a jail to me, not a datacenter (note the "Two Rivers Correction Institute" label) Or is it somewhere else nearby?

dsl 15y ago
You are correct. It looks like the datacenter is actually the construction site to the northwest of the jail. http://g.co/maps/gk8py http://g.co/maps/gk8py I have the addresses, but pulling them out from a satellite photo is a bit harder. :)
- jcdavis 15y ago
  No worries, appreciate the work figuring out the locations