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How old is this deck? AWS has 28 availability zones, and averages 4 datacenters per AZ. Way more than the 9 you claim...

by dsl 12y ago

kordless 12y ago
First, I'd like to point out you are referring to something that isn't on the Kickstarter page, but linked to by it. You are talking about this: http://utter.io/prezo http://utter.io/prezo. Yes, it's a little out of date. Yes, I substitute the industry's word 'datacenter' for Amazon's term 'region'. Three days ago I updated the longer video version from that page and put it on the Kickstarter page, down below the other video. In addition to removing other content, I edited out the amounts you are referring to because they change constantly and are less important to my pitch now I'm doing a Kickstarter campaign. Also, AWS added a 10th region to their list a few months ago. I don't 'count' the government cloud as a public offering. It remains a truth that AWS runs out of ten geographic regions. So, 80% of the world's public cloud is run out of (by your math) <~40 physical buildings. Not a cloud, IMHO. Besides, there doesn't appear to be any public information on how many physically different locations Amazon runs for AWS, which makes it impossible to say how many physical locations (datacenters) they run. I'm not 100% convinced that a 'zone' maps to a physical building, given my memory of ping times across zones and having issues with two neighbor zones at the same time in the early days of using AWS. Amazon having different terminology than the industry's causes confusion and my comments reflected that confusion when I used the term 'datacenter' erroneously. FWIW, Rackspace calls their dataceneters 'datacenters': http://www.rackspace.com/about/datacenters http://www.rackspace.com/about/datacenters. Any remaining minutia related to this topic will be resolved by the end of the week. I'm updating Utter.io in preperation for the Kickstarter launch.

How old is this deck? AWS has 28 availability zones, and averages 4 datacenters per AZ. Way more than the 9 you claim...

by dsl 12y ago

How old is this deck? AWS has 28 availability zones, and averages 4 datacenters per AZ. Way more than the 9 you claim...

kordless 12y ago

First, I'd like to point out you are referring to something that isn't on the Kickstarter page, but linked to by it. You are talking about this: http://utter.io/prezo http://utter.io/prezo. Yes, it's a little out of date. Yes, I substitute the industry's word 'datacenter' for Amazon's term 'region'. Three days ago I updated the longer video version from that page and put it on the Kickstarter page, down below the other video. In addition to removing other content, I edited out the amounts you are referring to because they change constantly and are less important to my pitch now I'm doing a Kickstarter campaign. Also, AWS added a 10th region to their list a few months ago. I don't 'count' the government cloud as a public offering. It remains a truth that AWS runs out of ten geographic regions. So, 80% of the world's public cloud is run out of (by your math) <~40 physical buildings. Not a cloud, IMHO. Besides, there doesn't appear to be any public information on how many physically different locations Amazon runs for AWS, which makes it impossible to say how many physical locations (datacenters) they run. I'm not 100% convinced that a 'zone' maps to a physical building, given my memory of ping times across zones and having issues with two neighbor zones at the same time in the early days of using AWS. Amazon having different terminology than the industry's causes confusion and my comments reflected that confusion when I used the term 'datacenter' erroneously. FWIW, Rackspace calls their dataceneters 'datacenters': http://www.rackspace.com/about/datacenters http://www.rackspace.com/about/datacenters. Any remaining minutia related to this topic will be resolved by the end of the week. I'm updating Utter.io in preperation for the Kickstarter launch.