Heh, you could imagine Bitcoin HFT shops spinning up EC2 instances until they happen to get one close to Coinbase's.
(I don't know AWS networking well enough to know if this would make much of a difference, or even if the overhead of the HTTP API wouldn't make the difference negligible)
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Heh, you could imagine Bitcoin HFT shops spinning up EC2 instances until they happen to get one close to Coinbase's.
(I don't know AWS networking well enough to know if this would make much of a difference, or even if the overhead of the HTTP API wouldn't make the difference negligible)
I imagine they are already thinking about it. Affinity and HFT go hand in hand.