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Doesn't AWS only spread your data over three availability zones, which are three data centers in the same city, often located in close proximity of each other? I'd rate the possibility of Amsterdam suffering a catastrophic flood or nuclear strike that wipes out three data centers at once at more frequently than once every 10,000 years.


I mean we're already pretty certain that their current design isn't enough to last when the sun explodes so that puts a hard limit of all data disappearing once every 10 billion years or so.


Think we'll have an AWS region in Alpha Centauri by then...

Edit: and it'll still break when us-east-1 is destroyed by the sun exploding.




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