It's interesting, but the granularity is kinda weird. >300ms is a nonstarter for all kinds of web apps here in Japan.
I worked on a web app project here where we absolutely could not use EC2 APAC (when it was only Singapore), and ping times to EC2 were 60ms. We had to put physical boxes in a Tokyo data center. It was only when Amazon opened their Tokyo region (8ms ping times from real users) that the customer was okay with the speeds.
So is would have liked to see finer gradations of these results. Still cool to have the info, though.
Agreed, < 125ms is typically an OK range (for most things) but < 300ms is really nebulous. There are apps I would stop using fairly quickly if 300ms was the norm.
Thanks for the tip on Tokyo data center for EC2, I've seen a lot of complaints for the Singapore data center in general with terrible times into China and Tokyo before and wasn't sure how the people actually in those regions felt about the response times.
I worked on a web app project here where we absolutely could not use EC2 APAC (when it was only Singapore), and ping times to EC2 were 60ms. We had to put physical boxes in a Tokyo data center. It was only when Amazon opened their Tokyo region (8ms ping times from real users) that the customer was okay with the speeds.
So is would have liked to see finer gradations of these results. Still cool to have the info, though.