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This was a fun article, does anyone know where the AWS facilities are? One of the best perks of working at Tumblr was once a month they had a data center tour

This was a fun article, does anyone know where the AWS facilities are? One of the best perks of working at Tumblr was once a month they had a data center tour for employees, you got to go to NJ for a day to see the facility, all of the power equipment, cooling, network equipment, and the servers themselves. Really awesome and eye opening. Pictures don’t really convey the size of these places.

mrsimonbennett 4y ago
Wikileaks released them in 2018 https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publishes-list-aws-data-center-locations-colo-providers/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publish... Seems the URL is down however https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/ https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/
- nixgeek 4y ago
  Amazon has also expanded massively since 2018 and the additions are going to be equally secret in location terms, probably.
fayalargeau 4y ago
that is honestly one of the cooler perks i've heard of
electroly 4y ago
Aside from the WikiLeaks mentioned by another poster, if you pull up your favorite AWS Region's city in Google Maps satellite view, you'll find the AWS facilities. It's the two or more long, narrow, white buildings with the roof entirely covered in AC units, generators in the parking lot, and a transmission switching station next to it. You'll find several clusters across the city; those are the availability zones. They'll have nondescript code names whereas all the other companies with data centers in the area have the company name labeled. For example, here's an AWS facility in us-east-1. Pairs of narrow white buildings, ACs on top, generators in parking lot, switching station next door, nondescript name: looks like an AWS data center to me. (Thanks to the WikiLeaks doc I happen to know for sure this really is AWS, but you can tell just from the satellite.) https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0271558,-77.4541392,698m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0271558,-77.4541392,698m/dat... If you have the WikiLeaks document you can just google the "IAD50" type codes and generally find them, but that's no fun.
- jareklupinski 4y ago
  Clicking into the maps link, it seems like another strategy is looking for names like "Performance Plaza" and "Reliability Street" haha

mrsimonbennett 4y ago

Wikileaks released them in 2018 https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publishes-list-aws-data-center-locations-colo-providers/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publish... Seems the URL is down however https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/ https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/

nixgeek 4y ago
Amazon has also expanded massively since 2018 and the additions are going to be equally secret in location terms, probably.

fayalargeau 4y ago

that is honestly one of the cooler perks i've heard of

electroly 4y ago

Aside from the WikiLeaks mentioned by another poster, if you pull up your favorite AWS Region's city in Google Maps satellite view, you'll find the AWS facilities. It's the two or more long, narrow, white buildings with the roof entirely covered in AC units, generators in the parking lot, and a transmission switching station next to it. You'll find several clusters across the city; those are the availability zones. They'll have nondescript code names whereas all the other companies with data centers in the area have the company name labeled. For example, here's an AWS facility in us-east-1. Pairs of narrow white buildings, ACs on top, generators in parking lot, switching station next door, nondescript name: looks like an AWS data center to me. (Thanks to the WikiLeaks doc I happen to know for sure this really is AWS, but you can tell just from the satellite.) https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0271558,-77.4541392,698m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0271558,-77.4541392,698m/dat... If you have the WikiLeaks document you can just google the "IAD50" type codes and generally find them, but that's no fun.

jareklupinski 4y ago
Clicking into the maps link, it seems like another strategy is looking for names like "Performance Plaza" and "Reliability Street" haha