It's interesting people are worried about this with Scaleway because I don't remember reading this with Slicehost or Amazon EC2 while they were ramping up. So,

It's interesting people are worried about this with Scaleway because I don't remember reading this with Slicehost or Amazon EC2 while they were ramping up. So, is the bar so much higher or is it something else? I used Slicehost and EC2 from Europe with total disregard for latency because I never had much users. For my (mostly internal) servers it was fast enough. And even now, I have the cheapest Scaleway machine with a public-facing website that seems to be running fine a small Angular4 + Java backend app. I would also like to see a graph showing the latencies between all the AWS regions. Which I guess will show that AWS regions do have a logic and that having servers next to your users makes sense. Still, why worry about this from the start when your monthly 'budget' is less than the price of your coffee breakfast and you get unmetered bandwidth?