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Fun fact, on certain (major) cloud providers, in certain regions, AZs are sometimes different floors of the same building :)

• mh- 3y ago
  You may be obligated not to name them, but I'm not: Google.
  • dharmab 3y ago
    That actually wasn't the one I was thinking of!
  • matja 3y ago
    AZ is a term used by AWS and Azure. GCP documentation makes it clear to "Distribute your resources across multiple zones and regions", where regions are physically different data centers.
• slig 3y ago
  The latency is exceptional.
• pests 3y ago
  I like how clear Azure is on this: > Availability zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more datacenters with independent power, cooling, and networking. The physical separation of availability zones within a region limits the impact to applications and data from zone failures, such as power and cooling failures, large-scale flooding, major storms and superstorms, and other events that could disrupt site access, safe passage, extended utilities uptime, and the availability of resources. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/high-availability/building-solutions-for-high-availability https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/high-av...
  • dharmab 3y ago
    I think they expanded Tokyo but previously that was a single-building "region" And it's virtually impossible to make, say, a Singapore region resilient to natural disasters
    • pests 3y ago
      Did they claim Tokyo was more than one availability zone? If the 'tokyo' region was only ever claimed to be '1 availability zone' I think being in a single building technically still satisfies my quote above. But yes, agreed.
      • dharmab 3y ago
        Yes, in the API you got multiple AZs.