For the record according to this link, https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ AWS operates in 18 geographies (called) regions... These are not data centers. There are 55 availability zones (AZs) at AWS regions, and each AZ has at least 1 data center..12 more AZs at 4 more regions are also announced
What the f*** is the edge?
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Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#32> "Edge Caching" it simply refers to the Amazon datacenter closest to whoever requests the site I can't speak for AWS, but for GCP there are many more Edge and CDN points of presence than there are datacenters: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ (flip to Network tab in map) And in Google's case "Edge" simply means where you exit the public internet and get on to Google's own network: https://peering.google.com…
It's still a "datacenter" though, right? Just a smaller one. It's not a "region" i.e. there's no other services available other than cloudfront (and I guess lambda@edge).
Or do you mean they might not be owned by aws (or Google)?
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#33FWIW, the Edge is a vehicle made by F∗∗∗.
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#34One time, I got a telemarketing call from someone selling satellite TV or something like that. I kept him on the line some time, asking all sorts of enthusiastic questions about his amazing service. I then proceeded to ask him how high up his satellites were, and if they could be giving God cancer. He (obviously) did not have a good answer. I then disappointedly told him that I was going to have to run his setup by m…
When did people on this site start using the word "modulo" for something other than the modulo operator in mathematics?
The weird thing is I feel "minus" makes more sense. Isn't "modulo" remainder? Whereas you're talking about the part that's left out, rather than the part that is remaining?
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#35One time, I got a telemarketing call from someone selling satellite TV or something like that. I kept him on the line some time, asking all sorts of enthusiastic questions about his amazing service. I then proceeded to ask him how high up his satellites were, and if they could be giving God cancer. He (obviously) did not have a good answer. I then disappointedly told him that I was going to have to run his setup by m…
When did people on this site start using the word "modulo" for something other than the modulo operator in mathematics?
Some discussion of that usage: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70018/meaning-of...
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#36One time, I got a telemarketing call from someone selling satellite TV or something like that. I kept him on the line some time, asking all sorts of enthusiastic questions about his amazing service. I then proceeded to ask him how high up his satellites were, and if they could be giving God cancer. He (obviously) did not have a good answer. I then disappointedly told him that I was going to have to run his setup by m…
When did people on this site start using the word "modulo" for something other than the modulo operator in mathematics?
You throw it in to sound smart. Has more to do with algebra/topology (think quotient group/space) than with arithmetic/number theory (n mod k).
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#37> When e.g. AWS Cloudfront, Amazon's Content Delivery Network talks about "Edge Caching" it simply refers to the Amazon datacenter closest to whoever requests the site. Kind of? If by "datacenter" they mean the things they said earlier that AWS had 18 of, then no, not really. There are many more Cloudfront points of presence that there are AWS regions (over 100 of the former). In practice unless someone lives very cl…
This is correct. A PoP can very well be an ISP’s datacenter, even if they usually do not provide hosting / colocation services, because it’s in their own interest since it reduces their overall bandwidth usage.
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#38> "Edge Caching" it simply refers to the Amazon datacenter closest to whoever requests the site I can't speak for AWS, but for GCP there are many more Edge and CDN points of presence than there are datacenters: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ (flip to Network tab in map) And in Google's case "Edge" simply means where you exit the public internet and get on to Google's own network: https://peering.google.com…
It's still a "datacenter" though, right? Just a smaller one. It's not a "region" i.e. there's no other services available other than cloudfront (and I guess lambda@edge). Or do you mean they might not be owned by aws (or Google)?
From what I heard, AWS rents a racks in commerical datacenters for its Route53 endpoints. So while that's also a datacenter of course, it's not an "Amazon datacenter".
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
When did people on this site start using the word "modulo" for something other than the modulo operator in mathematics?
The weird thing is I feel "minus" makes more sense. Isn't "modulo" remainder? Whereas you're talking about the part that's left out, rather than the part that is remaining?
You specify what's left over. Makes sense to me, though I can see how it would look backwards
Re: What the f*** is the edge?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
When did people on this site start using the word "modulo" for something other than the modulo operator in mathematics?
The weird thing is I feel "minus" makes more sense. Isn't "modulo" remainder? Whereas you're talking about the part that's left out, rather than the part that is remaining?
Completely agree on this point.