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Cloud providers are rarely in cities. Google's biggest region is in the middle of Iowa, Amazon's is in Virginia. If you have a latency sensitive application (l
by mike_d 5y ago
Cloud providers are rarely in cities. Google's biggest region is in the middle of Iowa, Amazon's is in Virginia.
If you have a latency sensitive application (like multiplayer games) it makes sense to put a few servers in each of 100 locations rather concentrate them in a half dozen cloud regions.
As they point out elsewhere, the cost of infrastructure directly impacts their ability to pay creators on the platform. Doing it yourself will always be cheaper, and they hired the smart people to make it happen.
- InsomniacL 5y ago> it makes sense to put a few servers in each of 100 locations rather concentrate them in a half dozen cloud regions. Large cloud providers have a backbone network with interconnects to many ISPs reducing the amount of Hops a client has to take across the internet. > Doing it yourself will always be cheaper Treating the Cloud as a traditional IAAS Datacenter extension will be more expensive. By utilising PAAS, only using resource that's needed and when it's needed, etc.. is much cheaper.