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r4vik on Nov 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: New AWS Region in Sydney, Australia

Well the distance between Perth and Sydney is similar to New York and SF. And pings between NY and SF are usually in the same range ~(70-90ms) so not too shabby

thejosh on Nov 13, 2012 [–]

Yep, this is actually quite good. I see 90+ in some cases in Sydney so this is good.

I also see extremely good download speeds when testing from EC2 (it capped my connection instantly).

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