<story><title>DigitalOcean Region Information</title><url>https://snapshooter.com/learn/datacenter-regions-digitalocean-located</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moondev</author><text>Interesting, so this indicates digitalocean doesn&amp;#x27;t operate their own datacenters, but is a tenant in each location. Perhaps this is common knowledge, but I assume AWS, GCP and Azure actually operate their own? What other cloud providers truly operate their own datacenters?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>Some AWS, Azure and GCP availability zones run out of third party (at least Equinix) datacenters. It&amp;#x27;s easier and cheaper for the more &amp;quot;niche&amp;quot; regions - nobody will use the Paris region outside of customers in and around France, does it make sense to build and operate 3 DCs for such a market? Apparently AWS decided that it doesn&amp;#x27;t and they use Equinix PA2 and PA3, among others, for that.</text></comment>
<story><title>DigitalOcean Region Information</title><url>https://snapshooter.com/learn/datacenter-regions-digitalocean-located</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moondev</author><text>Interesting, so this indicates digitalocean doesn&amp;#x27;t operate their own datacenters, but is a tenant in each location. Perhaps this is common knowledge, but I assume AWS, GCP and Azure actually operate their own? What other cloud providers truly operate their own datacenters?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EwanToo</author><text>The major providers use buildings owned by Equinix and others where they need to.&lt;p&gt;Check out Amazon Atlas on wikileaks for some more information&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wikileaks.org&amp;#x2F;amazon-atlas&amp;#x2F;document&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wikileaks.org&amp;#x2F;amazon-atlas&amp;#x2F;document&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>