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In the pure theoretical definition, packet switched networks (the internet) are not capable of giving you any guarantees on the throughput. Because of this, par
by stingraycharles 14y ago
In the pure theoretical definition, packet switched networks (the internet) are not capable of giving you any guarantees on the throughput. Because of this, parties such as Amazon / Rackspace are unlikely to give you these guarantees either.
The closest thing you can get to guaranteed bandwidth today is to rent (dark) fiber between multiple DC's yourself.
- njyx 14y agoTrue - although you can get pretty good approximations. Still though, the point is valid: it would be very expensive to guarantee. Performance profile could drop badly pretty much any time.
- jeffbarr 14y agoYou can use AWS Direct Connect (http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/ http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/) to set up a dedicated 1Gbit or 10 Gbit network connection from an AWS region to the location of your choice.
- mobiplayer 14y agoGuaranteed?