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It's a bit strange how S3 has a 'US Standard' region option, while Glacier has the usual set of regions (US East, US West, etc). I wonder if this means that unl
by newhouseb 14y ago
It's a bit strange how S3 has a 'US Standard' region option, while Glacier has the usual set of regions (US East, US West, etc). I wonder if this means that unlike S3, Glacier isn't replicated across regions?
- miles932 14y agoUS Standard isn't replicated across regions.
- newhouseb 14y agoHm, you could be right, AWS says: > The US Standard Region automatically routes requests to facilities in Northern Virginia or the Pacific Northwest using network maps. I guess this means that the data is automatically geographically sharded?
- jordanthoms 14y agoKeep in mind that even if your data is in one AWS region, it'll still be stored in multiple different datacenters some distance apart. Just not on the other side of the US.