On: It’s Amazon’s Swamp Now

[bilbo0s]

Guys, please, try to be reasonable here.

150 miles is not an insert for Amazon. I'm not a general, but even I can see that 150 miles is military sense.

[lmm → bilbo0s]

150 specifically just happens to be the military requirement? Not 100 or 200, but 150, which just happens to be the distance that Amazon offers?

[PunchTornado → lmm]

? it is a minimum of 150 miles. And no, this is not the distance that Amazon offers, Google and Azure also can match this offer.

[Cthulhu_ → bilbo0s]

I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of the requirements used Amazon's numbers and marketing material as, shall we say, inspiration.

[tooltalk → bilbo0s]

There is a 50-miles requirement for financial companies that came into effect after the 9/11. So I think 150 miles isn't all that unreasonable for military.

[Spooky23 → bilbo0s]

It’s probably 150 miles within an availability zone.

[jeffreybezos → Spooky23]

Datacenters in the same AZ are much closer than 150 miles, right?

[Spooky23 → jeffreybezos]

No idea Jeff. :)

I do know the Iowa is >150 miles from Ashburn, VA, so Google Cloud and Azure should have been able to meet that requirement.