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I don't know what it is like these days but us-east AZs used to be in different datacenters that were on different flood plains and power companies. They were
by lamontcg 4y ago
I don't know what it is like these days but us-east AZs used to be in different datacenters that were on different flood plains and power companies. They were just on a very high capacity (for the day) fiber ring. You still had a couple miles of light-delay latency in between them. A sufficiently big enough meteor, or a powerful enough massive hurricane, could probably take out multiple ones at the same time.
- londons_explore 4y agoI believe the Google design is one big pool of machines, perhaps spread across a few buildings, but they hope that any failure only affects a few racks. They will arrange/move workloads such that any one customer will only see an outage in one 'zone'. Clearly that didn't work here,
- local_crmdgeon 4y agoThat's .... that's not a great strategy. I get that it's cheap, but incidents like this will cost a LOT more with lost business.