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AWS actually operates 5 independent data centers (called availability zones) within the same complex that make up the us-east-1 region. This makes them signific
by rbranson 14y ago
AWS 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.