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Not sure if everyone realizes this, but often (outside the US at least) neither company build or owns data centers. For example, Amazon Sydney is in Equinix SY3[1].

[1] https://blog.equinix.com/2012/11/amazon-web-services-comes-t... (plus I know people who saw the equipment going in)

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That's just a Direct Connect location right? Not the actual Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

I'm guessing Equinix aren't allowed to say AWS is in their DC.

But their equipment is in there, 100% guaranteed (or at least was in 2012).

Edit: Here's a better reference:

Equinix yesterday launched phase two of its Sydney 3 International Business Exchange datacentre facility (SY3-II) in Alexandria, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) onboard as one of its first customers.... It was only confirmed yesterday — despite it being the worst-kept secret in the industry - that it is using Equinix's SY3-II datacentre.

http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/equinix-celebrates-launch-of-s...

I don't know for sure, but I also think that AWS Sao Paulo is in the Terremark DC.

AWS have two dedicated DCs ('AZs') in Sydney. For services that require quorum (Dynamo, SQS, S3 and others) they also have a private third 'AZ' in SY3-II. When you get an EC2 instance it is always in a dedicated DC, not Equinix.

Wow, is that the same with OVH? Since every one of their DC are specially built by them so far.

( Although it would make sense, since 12 totally new DC in a year is quite an achievement. )

I don't know about OVH. I know OVH built their Quebec DC, but I'd be surprised if their expansion plans don't include leasing space (if they don't already do it).

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