Posted by orliesaurus 3 days ago
Close to the network centrality of the of the internet, low latency to both the west coast and Europe.
Most of the Internet is fractured even though technically publically routable. E.g., for someone living in China the US isn't anywhere near "network centrality".
If an internet centrality exists, it is somewhere in France or the Netherlands - usually cross-continent traffic goes through there, they have dedicated interchanges for that.
You are right, the best region that optimises median latency against all internet users over the world is `us-west-3`, which is Paris - I believe. Likely because it has much better latency towards Asia where the majority of internet users are.
I also investigated which two regions to choose for a multi-region setup, which ends up being London and Japan.
Data caps are apparently illegal here. This is good for the quality of infrastructure.
And if you have customers somewhere else you want to be in that place, or close to it network-wise.
Late edit: it would also be cool to see inter-cloud latency.
is it part of some common js lib?