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How's your latency? An advantage of connecting to an EC2 instance seems to be that you're getting your traffic onto the backbone without eating a "last mile" ro
by ShabbyDoo 16y ago
How's your latency? An advantage of connecting to an EC2 instance seems to be that you're getting your traffic onto the backbone without eating a "last mile" roundtrip to your house.
EC2 scenario:
coffee shop -> backbone -> EC2 -> backbone -> remote site (probably hosted somewhere close to your EC2 instance, especially if a CDN is in use)
Home scenario:
coffee shop -> backbone -> cable provider -> home -> cable provider -> backbone -> remote server