Data Center buildout continues – Amazon is building another one in Oregon
By Tarry Singh at 24 June, 2009, 2:14 am
Amazon buys a large volume of servers to support its cloud computing operations. It was the top customer for Rackable Systems/SGI in 2008, buying more than $86 million of the company’s cloud-optimized servers and storage.
Amazon is known to already operate a major East Coast data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The company has disclosed that it has U.S. data centers in Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark (N.J.), Palo Alto, Seattle and St. Louis. The company also has international data center operations in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Amazon revealed those locations as part of its CloudFront content delivery network (CDN).
Amazon is also reportedly planning a large data center in Boardman, Oregon near the banks of the Columbia River, joining Google in harnessing the region’s cheap energy resources to power huge cloud computing data centers.
The expansion of its data center infrastructure is important for Amazon to manage its growth an provide redundancy for customers who want to spread their files across several data centers. Amazon offers “availability zones” that allow developers to store a copy of their site or application at a second location in case a data center is knocked offline – which happened last week when a lightning strike damaged the power distribution system at an Amazon facility, knocking EC2 customers offline for about four hours.
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