Amazon Now Serves Files At Sub-Millisecond Speeds (neowin.net) 27
In an AWS blog post, Amazon announced that its Elastic File Systems (Amazon EFS) "now provide average latency as low as 600 microseconds for the majority of read operations on data and metadata. "We seem to be approaching the speed of light, even when taking into account IOPS, throughput, and all other external factors," writes Slashdot reader segaboy81. Neowin reports: Amazon is announcing an enormous increase in read speeds. According to an AWS blog post, EFS read operations have typically hovered in the low 1ms range, but after they "flipped the switch," read operations are now halved. Users can now expect read speeds as low as 600 micro-seconds. I'm not a scientist, but online calculators seem to indicate light can travel roughly 113 miles every 600 microseconds. This begs the question; how close will you need to be to a data center to get this performance benefit? Either way, it's worth noting that this is not a new performance tier. Users of EFS will see this benefit at no extra cost.
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Amazon paid for a double post, so that's what they get!
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I guess it's that impressive it needed two postings...
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I've had to amend my drinking game. Now I only take a drink every time there is a triplicate on /.
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You... may have a problem. Have you considered a twelve step program?
no idea (Score:2)
If it hasn't made the front page of Slashdot, then I've never heard of it.
Re: Today's Internet is useless. (Score:1)
serving dupes at sub hourly speeds (Score:3)
That's nothing (Score:2)
Slashdot has been serving up dups at sub-millisecond speeds for decades now.
I heard reddit is the new slashdot, so I checked, and yep! They serve up dups fast, too.
Spam will be the first thing to travel (Score:1)
...faster than the speed of light.
Does Slashdot run on Amazon's cloud? (Score:2)
If Amazon serves articles so fast, Slashdot editors can't detect the dupes.
How close?? (Score:2)
From tfa, " This begs the question; how close will you need to be to a data center to get this performance benefit?"
Simple - just use an Amazon AWS host and you're in their datacenter enjoying sub-millisecond read times. That's what it's about, not serving files to userland.
There are some straightforward implications to this claim.
1) All storage is now on SSD drives. Spinning drives can't deliver sub-millisecond random reads.
2) There's no store & forward routing anywhere between AWS servers and storage
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I get the feeling that you have mistaken the latency on a traceroute for the latency on actually traversing said router, instead of the latency of a response from the software stack of the router.
I am waiting.... (Score:2)
narrow minded much? (Score:2)
This begs the question; how close will you need to be to a data center to get this performance benefit?
If you think all that is happening in AWS is web services to show cat videos, then yes. If however to factor in multi-node analysis of large datasets, where all the involved machines are physically in the same DC, it makes a lot more sense.
Well.... yeah, we are in the 21th century (Score:2)
I mean even a slow harddisk will typically give you file access times in the order of magnitude of tens of Milliseconds. What is amazing though is that they can achieve near local speeds despite of having the large overhead of being a cloud provider.
The devils in the details (Score:2)
10%) never send and states was refused by recipient
30%) trace through to your gateway router with lighting speed, but you'll get the packets in about four days
60%) Arrive instantly
I call it "Amazon Roulette"