Eqiad data center

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

Wikimedia infrastructure

Data centers

• 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)
• Data center operations
  • Common data center spec
  • Platform-specific doc
• Naming conventions

Networking

Global traffic routing

MediaWiki

Multimedia

Data Engineering

Search

Data Persistence

Infra Foundations

Observability

Performance Team

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Eqiad (pronounced eh-key-add, or the Ashburn DC) is located at the Equinix data center in Ashburn, 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, on mediawiki.org
• Obsolete:Eqiad Migration Planning