Sorry - you are right, with the scale of Amazon they are within a region. But th...

tgeek · on July 13, 2015

AZ's are typically 5-15miles apart. Needs to be a pretty large hurricane that far in land to take out all the various datacenters.

Also, just to clarify, you can do multi-region RDS read-replicas for MySQL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...

lamontcg · on July 13, 2015

The Virginia DCs are in different flood plains and on different power grids. A hurricane remnant did hit the one year (2005 probably) and a tornado took out power to one of them.