Oh cool, so now I can host my app in one data center and have it make DB calls across the open internet to another DB server! But wait, there's more! It's over

Oh cool, so now I can host my app in one data center and have it make DB calls across the open internet to another DB server! But wait, there's more! It's over a stateless protocol: HTTP, with really poor multiplexing/pipelining support. Latency is a feature, right? Like "slow your roll, cowboy, let's not have a heart attack here".