On Wednesday 23 November 2016 14:06:54 Sam Silvester wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected] > wrote: > >> David mentioned the site was hosted by Amazon Technologies - presumeably >> because it said so somewhere. > > Ok. From a quick look around, it doesn't look like it's advertised on the > site itself. I suspect David might be gleaning that information from whois / > DNS records, as opposed to any free advertising.
Yes, that's right. The <greater.sydney> website invites people to add information there, but I can't find any clues as to where the data lives. I think there's a strong implication that it's a NSW Government site, which I suppose it is in some legal sense, but a little bit of research beginning with the domain name apparently shows it's hosted by Amazon Web Hosting Services in a "cloud" managed by Equinix. See for example https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/directconnectbundles/ http://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/Colocation.html I wonder how much else of the State Government data resides in the Amazon cloud, and how many "direct connect" links there are between all sorts of organisations? It's potentially a private internet. DavidL _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
