Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 23 Jan 2009
Amazon EC2 Network and S3 performance
When a distributed application is running in-house the IT has a lot of control over the environment. They know exactly about the hardware and resources available:
network bandwith available
network latency
Now move to EC2 and other than some vague figures there is very little documented.
The guys at RighScale did some tests for ‘EC2-EC2′ bandwidth and ‘EC2-S3′ [...]
