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That's not just quick, that's suspiciously quick. Here's a round-trip chart for Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/networking/media/azur...

Us West - Australia round-trip for them is ~140ms. And ~50ms seems to be the physical limit unless I messed up the numbers somewhere?

Edit:

Syd-syd response time 138ms

Syd-lax response time 427ms, replay time 16ms

Ok, not sure what the replay time means in this case (extra latency from the cancellation?), but it's not the total cost and you really don't want to send those packets around the world :-)

simonw was referencing the replay overhead number. His request hits Los Angeles first, the rails app in lax says "go to Sydney", and the request gets replayed in syd.

The entire request to Sydney for me (from Chicago) takes 516ms, 15ms of that is "replay overhead".

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