eqiad data center

Eqiad data center
Map of Wikimedia Foundation data centers . codfw eqiad esams ulsfo eqsin drmrs magru
Vendor	Equinix (EQ)
Nearby airport	Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Location	Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Datacenter number	#1
Usage	Application services

Wikimedia infrastructure

Data centers

• Data center locations :
  • eqiad data center (Ashburn, USA)
  • codfw data center (Dallas, USA)
  • esams data center (Amsterdam, NL)
  • ulsfo data center (San Francisco, USA)
  • eqsin data center (Singapore, SG)
  • drmrs data center (Marseille, FR)
  • magru data center (São Paulo, BR)
• Data center operations
  • Common data center spec
  • Platform-specific doc
• Naming conventions

Networking

Global traffic routing

MediaWiki SRE

MediaWiki Engineering

Multimedia

Data Engineering

Search

SRE Data Persistence

SRE Infra Foundations

SRE Observability

Wikidata Platform

Wikimedia Performance

Event Platform

Release Engineering

Fundraising

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eqiad (pronounced eh-key-add , or the Ashburn DC ) is located at the Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia, United States .

Network

Eqiad network design .

Media gallery

See also: "Wikimedia servers in Ashburn" on Wikimedia Commons

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See also

• Pages linking to "Eqiad data center"
• WMF Projects/Data Center Virginia (2010-2013), on mediawiki.org
• Obsolete:Eqiad Migration Planning

Further reading

• WMF needs additional datacenter space by Rob Halsell, Wikimedia Blog, 2009.

• Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia by Guillaume Paumier, Wikimedia Blog, 2013.
• How the TechOps stops problems in their tracks by Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Blog, 2013.