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Re:Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amaz... by QuinnyPig on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:48PM (#18195016)
I'm not sure why Russian intelligence cares about AWS datacenter locations.

This has largely been an "open secret" for a long time. If you want to know where an AWS datacenter is, ask local taxi drivers and pizza delivery folks. These things are huge, and very hard to hide.

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Re:Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amaz... by cafard on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:55PM (#18195637)
Which assumes that you know the locale. I imagine that there is one in Ashburn, Virginia, maybe an hour's drive from here. But what pizza delivery operation would I ask? I guess I could hail a cab at Dulles and ask to be taken there.
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Re:Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amaz... by QuinnyPig on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:29PM (#18196804)
The locale is "the region as announced publicly," and anyone who's in a position to use this information is going to pay more than one person to start digging. It's a crowdsourcing problem.
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