Posted by orliesaurus 3 days ago
Anyways, although this looks cool, it'd be much more easily understandable in a 2d map instead of a rotating one.
Of course, it doesn't actually matter since friends don't let friends use AWS.
Geographic proximity isn't the main factor for peering and even if they did your session may still get terminated at a border network gateway in a big city and your traffic has to travel the same way.
I used my own tool Livedocs to visualize the same and here are the results. https://livedocs.com/livedocs/aws-latencies-3f2fefd5-f45d-48...
This is way outdated now but gives a rough idea: https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/document/AmazonAtlas_v1/A...
Source: did some latency work for a market maker.