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Re:OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no p... by jacquesm on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:37AM (#30764839)
This even goes for Amazon. Multiple DCs in the same AZ can fail together.
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Re:OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no p... by sterwill on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @08:02AM (#30765024)
With AWS, the "datacenter" isn't a concept users have to worry about (or can even discover or manage). Each AZ comprises many datacenters, each region comprises many AZs, and AWS makes it easy to deploy most services across multiple AZs in a region. If one AWS datacenter goes down (and this happens occasionally), typically only one AZ in the region is affected.
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