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		newhouseb on Aug 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Glacier Hm, you could be right, AWS says: > The US Standard Region automatically routes requests to facilities in Northern Virginia or the Pacific Northwest using network maps. I guess this means that the data is automatically geographically sharded?

jordanthoms on Aug 21, 2012 [–]

Keep in mind that even if your data is in one AWS region, it'll still be stored in multiple different datacenters some distance apart. Just not on the other side of the US.

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