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by scarface74 2951 days ago
They are not in "the same geographic data center".

Amazon says:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-re...

"Each region is completely independent. Each Availability Zone is isolated, but the Availability Zones in a region are connected through low-latency links".

Backblaze hosts everything in one non redundant data center.