Employee of an AWS customer here hosted primarily on us-east-1.

We've had a box get water damage after a big storm.

Also, I once met someone who works at the datacenter. He said it's crazy hot inside. They apparently only cool the building the bare minimum required to keep the servers functional. Very Amazon.

Why would you spend millions of dollars over cooling a DC? Computers don't have feelings.

I recall reading a google study that disks last longer and are more stable running hotter than usual.

"After looking at data on over 34,000 drives, I found that overall there is no correlation between temperature and failure rate."

From BackBlaze: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-i...

Reading the same study, I recall that higher temperate cause slightly more premature deaths (< 6 months), it makes no difference afterwards.

us-east-1 is AWS.