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| license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
| pretty_name: Cloud Datacenter Locations |
| task_categories: |
| - other |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - datacenters |
| - infrastructure |
| - geospatial |
| configs: |
| - config_name: AWS |
| data_files: aws.json |
| - config_name: Azure |
| data_files: azure.json |
| - config_name: GCP |
| data_files: gcp.json |
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| # Cloud Datacenter Locations |
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| This dataset tracks the locations of datacenters operated by large cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) with each cloud provider having their own json file. |
| It based on my research collected from publicly available information. |
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| ## Accuracy of locations |
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| The granularity of each entry's location is recorded explicitly (see `geoPrecision` below). |
| Cloud providers will provide **region** or **zone** as options while procuring their services, these refer to a geographic area where they operate 1 or more actual physical datacenters. |
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| ## Coordinates |
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| Coordinates are primarily determined by geocoding the `location` string via [OpenStreetMap Nominatim](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/), which gives the center of the `country`, `state`, `city`, or `district`. |
| When the actual datacenters can be found on a map, their coordinates are used and `geoPrecision` is set to `datacenter`. |
| Coordinates are stored in the array `geoLatLong` as one or more `[latitude, longitude]` pairs, with each coordinate rounded to 3 decimals. |
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| Note, there may be various datacenters spread geographically which all operate under the same provider code. |
| The listed locations are publicly attributed to the provider. |
| When only one datacenter is found, we assume it is solely responsible for that region or zone. |
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| ## Data model |
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| | Field | Description | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | `code` | The provider's official reference code | |
| | `country` | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (ADM0) | |
| | `geoLatLong` | Array of `[latitude, longitude]` pairs (rounded to 3 decimals) | |
| | `geoPrecision` | `country`, `state`, `city`, `district` (coordinates derived from `location`) <br> `datacenter` (coordinates derived from map) | |
| | `location` | Location of the datacenter, from the provider's page or other public sources | |
| | `provider` | `aws` \| `azure` \| `gcp` | |
| | `providerScope` | `region` or `zone` (refer to provider specific documentation) | |
| | `source` | Full URL of the official page this entry was sourced from | |
| | `sourceChecked` | Date the source URL was verified (e.g. `2026-09-01`) | |
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| ### Additional fields |
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| | Field | Description | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | `zoneCount` | **AWS only.** Number of Availability Zones (AZs) in the region. | |
| | `zones` | **GCP only.** Named zone codes (e.g. `us-central1-a`). | |
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| ## Main sources |
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| - **AWS**: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/regions/aws-regions.html |
| - **Azure**: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list |
| - **GCP**: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones |
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| ## License |
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| [CC-BY-SA-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) |
