Netcraft's graph showing the number of Amazon and non-Amazon web servers in the past decade
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Amazon has acquired a former supermarket warehouse at Greenhills Industrial Estate near Dublin for the purpose of converting into a data center to meet the needs of its growing cloud computing services, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
The company recently acquired a 240,000 square foot building that was previously used as a storage house for UK supermarket chain Tesco.
Amazon has also leased space for data center expansion in the Snughborough Industrial Estate in Ballycoolin and the Clonshaugh Industrial Estate, both of which are located in the Dublin area.
Amazon Web Services previously opened a facility in Dublin back in December 2008 to house the European availablity zones for its EC2 cloud computing services.
In December, the data center saw about a half an hour of downtime due to performance issues, which affected Amazon’s European websites, including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it and Amazon.at.
Ireland saw the largest growth in 2010 in the number of public-facing web servers in Netcraft’s hosting provider server count, which can mostly be attributed to the large growth at Amazon’s EC2 service.
“Amazon’s cloud hosting now makes up more than a third of all internet-facing web servers in Ireland, with three times more web servers hosted than the next largest hosting location,” writes Netcraft’s Colin Phipps.
As Rich Miller points out in the Data Center Knowledge report, this latest acquisition “appears to be part of a broader effort” to attain more real estate to convert into data center space for Amazon Web Services.
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