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Soon it will be news when the N. Virginia services are actually up! I don't want to be too hard on Amazon because what they've built is pretty amazing, but I r
by smoyer 14y ago
Soon it will be news when the N. Virginia services are actually up! I don't want to be too hard on Amazon because what they've built is pretty amazing, but I really have to wonder what's different about the N. Virginia site ... And why they're not having similar failures at the other sites.
- bgentry 14y agous-east-1 is much, much larger than the other regions. Many more services use it, which is why when it has issues you actually notice the effects.
- campnic 14y agoBased on some rough second hand estimation [1] it is an order of magnitude larger then all other AZs and is about as big as them all combined. [1]: https://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-size/ https://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-...
- lelandbatey 14y agoIf I remember correctly, the N. Virginia site is the default for EC2 instances, and is much much larger than the other availability zones. I've even heard that it's bigger than all the other zones combined. However, I'd love for someone to corroborate my statement.
- cperciva 14y agoThat's certainly true for the public IP spaces. It's possible that the other regions have a higher proportion of instances in VPC which don't have public IP addresses, or a higher proportion of larger instance types, though.
- rhizome 14y agoNot all instance types are available in all zones, and some of the smaller ones are only available in this one.