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AWS data center latencies, visualized

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Re: AWS data center latencies, visualized

#161
post #155

Cool visualization and concept. I do wish the colors were on a ramp instead of bucketed. The reason is that it makes 100ms look much worse than 99ms, but equal to 200ms. If you click on us-east-1, for example, the latency to the data centers in Western Europe look quite different with eu-central-1 and eu-south-1 looking completely different even though the latency is only around 9ms difference and eu-north-1 and ap-s…

Author here - The ramping is a really good idea. The current visualization makes a 90ms latency look "good" when in reality, thats totally unacceptable for many applications, especially for things where multiple round-trips need to happen to fulfill a request.

Re: AWS data center latencies, visualized

#162

The data is really useful, and the globe is visually impressive, but it feels like it'd be more practically useful to have a flat world map that shows all the data centers at once and makes it easier to read the lines without them getting excessively close to each other.

Author here - Cool and useful is a careful balancing act.

Re: AWS data center latencies, visualized

#163
post #10

How did you choose which datacenters to include? For example, eu-south-2 (Spain) is missing. The reason I know is because I worked on a project that required latency to be under 30ms between datacenters, and we had to use eu-west-1 (Ireland) and eu-south-2. Turns out that latency is closer to 42ms, mainly because there are no undersea cables between Ireland and the continent (they only go to England, then they have t…

Author here - I just used what was available on https://www.cloudping.co, which is certainly missing a few. The CloudPing GitHub repo has not had a code change in 4 years. Maybe a few new regions have popped up since it was last actively worked on.

Re: AWS data center latencies, visualized

#166
post #91

Cool, but information about what links were used would be nice. I assume it's latencies for default AWS links, which you likely won't use if you _care_ about the latency.

Author here - The data used was scraped from https://cloudping.co. You can find more info on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/mda590/cloudping.co.

Re: AWS data center latencies, visualized

#168

not sure why you/source is missing ca-west-1?

Author here - The data came from https://cloudping.co, and the GitHub repo has not been updated in 4 years. See https://github.com/mda590/cloudping.co. Is that a newer data center? The CloudPing site is definitely missing a few.
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