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I've always wondered what "us-east-1" is, presumably it's more than just 1 building
by jdxcode 5mo ago
I've always wondered what "us-east-1" is, presumably it's more than just 1 building
- arjie 5mo agoThat's a region. It's not only many buildings, it's many zones, each of which are many datacenters. A region is just a virtual partition for their services. A zone is a fault domain for their services, and a single zone is met by many datacenters, each of which can have many buildings. Or at the least, I know of at least one datacenter which has multiple buildings, that is within one zone that has multiple datacenters, that is within one region that has multiple zones.
- wglass 5mo agoLoudoun county in Virginia, near Washington-Dulles airport. Taxes on data centers built by AWS and other firms provide almost 40% of the county budget.