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Is US-east the least reliable of all AWS data centres? Arguably, Virginia is more susceptible to natural disasters than Oregon or Northern California (while we
by herge 14y ago
Is US-east the least reliable of all AWS data centres? Arguably, Virginia is more susceptible to natural disasters than Oregon or Northern California (while we wait for that 1 in a 100 year earthquake).
- bgentry 14y agoIt's also by far the most heavily used of AWS regions, so they face many scale problems there that other regions don't have to worry about yet. And it was the first, so there's probably some legacy baggage there (i.e. they've learned from mistakes when building other regions).
- bradleyland 14y agoI prefer Dallas (Colo4, specifically). They've been incredible. Only one significant outage in 7 years. They're nearly half way between coasts too, so they're a great latency compromise if you're stuck with a single DC.
- flyt 14y agoAWS doesn't have a presence in Texas.
- callmevlad 14y agoRackspace also has a big data center in DFW. I only remember one or two outages in the last several years.
- rbranson 14y agoAWS actually operates 5 independent data centers (called availability zones) within the same complex that make up the us-east-1 region. This makes them significantly more likely to experience an outage in 1 availability zone, but also makes it much easier to architect around the problem.
- pzb 14y agoActually, AWS has more than 10 data centers that make up US-East-1. This was mentioned in the post-mortem published last week. Availability zones in US-East-1 are at least one data center, but may be multiple facilities in geographic proximity.