[TheNewsIsHere]

> Did us-east-1 go Dow because of hurricane sandy?

Nope, but Sandy did a hell of a lot of damage to some key telecommunications infrastructure. Verizon lost multiple floors worth of equipment, cabling, and related infrastructure that served at least their customers across Manhattan.

Having geographical redundancy for mission critical workloads is a good investment if your business is making money. Networked computing is one of the few places we can actually “run away” from a physical source of problems. (Not forever, or universally, of course).

We’re based on the eastern seaboard. You bet we have failsafes in areas less susceptible to natural disaster.