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by DinkyG 3917 days ago
Multiple facilities != "one datacenter"
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Like I asked below, do you have a citation?
"No one data center serves two availability zones" :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/16/aws_data_centre_arch...

From your link:

"To solve latency, Amazon built Availability Zones on groups of tightly coupled data centres. Each data centre in a Zone is less than 25 microseconds away from its sibling and packs 102Tbps of networking."

25 microseconds at the speed of light (best case, through a vacuum; through fiber is significantly slower) is ~4.7 miles, and based on the quote, that is the furthest they are apart. If your buildings are within 1-2 miles of each other, they're essentially the same facility.

That is not geographically redundant.

Sure, it's not geographically redundant, but nobody in this thread claimed it was. DinkyG disputed that your "one datacenter" claim was false, which it appears to be.