3 ms·
Ask HN: How likely is it that Sandy will affect AWS us-east?
- niggler 14y agoMany data centers are hardened. For example, the Mahwah data center that houses NYSE and the Carteret data center that houses NASDAQ can sustain hurricane weather (although they are closed today/tomorrow)
- toomuchtodo 14y agoHow impervious are they to flooding?
- dholowiski 14y agoI wonder if many data centers will pre-emptively disconnect from the power grid and switch over to backup generators? I used to work in the same building as a data center and we had enough diesel fuel to keep running for a week without refueling (and we did, once). This does make me wonder, the data centers that Google and Amazon are building, how will they fare in a hurricane? Did they skimp on strength to build them cheaper?