What does rack mean in AWS EC2 partition placement groups?

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The documentation of AWS partition placement group says:

  • Each partition within a placement group has its own set of racks.
  • No two partitions within a placement group share the same racks.

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What does rack mean? Are they a shelf of servers that share power and network as a unit? Does it refer to outpost rack?

From What is an AWS Outpost Rack? - YouTube:

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Reference

Using partition placement groups for large distributed and replicated workloads in Amazon EC2

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It refers to a separate area of the AZ data center with your physical host. The whole point of partitioned placement groups is that hosts are divided between a number of separate physical hosts, that are semi redundant to failing.

Basically they cannot be 2 physical machines sat on the same rack, they need to be seperated.