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Cloud Availability Zones

The design pattern in which a cloud region is divided into isolated clusters of data centres so that the failure of one does not take down the others.

Current clusters

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AWS ran out of options for the data left in Bahrain when the second zone failed

AWS's status update says the strike damage exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ services were built to withstand. Customers who held data in a single zone in Bahrain or in mec1-az2 are being told it is not coming back.

Perspective Coverage

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Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 36%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption52
Hype gap−12
Incentives72
Confidence66