The interesting thing to me is the us population by time zone. If amazon has 70% of servers in the eastern time zone it makes some sense.
Mountain + pacific is smaller than central, which is a bit more than half eastern. These stats are older but a good rough gauge: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=714986 Jared Mauch On Jun 30, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > On 6/30/12 12:04 PM, Todd Underwood wrote: >> This was not a cascading failure. It was a simple power outage >> >> Cascading failures involve interdependencies among components. >> > > I guess I'm assuming there were UPS and generator systems involved (and > failing) with powering the critical load, but I suppose it could all be > direct to utility power. > > ~Seth