7 ms·

If they use reserved instances, it should be even less than that. They still need to control abuse in terms of bandwidth, etc. and that is the difficult part.

• ceejayoz 16y ago
  It should be easy enough to throttle bandwidth on the instances.
  • ridruejo 16y ago
    As far as I know that cannot be done with standard Amazon tools
    • ceejayoz 16y ago
      You don't need it on Amazon's side - plenty of solutions exist that can be installed on the instances themselves. Apache throttling, for example.