If you're willing to go outside AWS...Denver. We occasionally see tornadoes out here, but Denver is outside "Tornado Alley" [1], so they're pretty rare. On the

If you're willing to go outside AWS...Denver. We occasionally see tornadoes out here, but Denver is outside "Tornado Alley" [1], so they're pretty rare. On the WikiPedia tornado page they set the odds of a tornado hitting the downtown area of a big city at around one in a thousand per year. If you want to be extra paranoid, you could always pick a secondary data center location where it would be safer in the summer, since Denver would be safe from tornadoes in the winter. [2] Or you could just put one on the West Coast and hope that there's not a 1-in-a-thousand tornado within a week of a big earthquake. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tornado_Alley_Diagram.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tornado_Alley_Diagram.svg [2] http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/severe-weather/articles/tornadoes-by-month-denver_2010-03-29 http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/severe-weather/a...