Monday, May 5, 2008

Testing Amazon Web Services Bandwidth

I've been quickly testing the Amazon EC2 bandwidth capabilities. Here are the results:

From amazon availability zone us-east-1c to New York:

  • download speed: 7255 KB/s
  • upload speed: 2167 KB/s
  • ping: 7 ms
From amazon availability zone us-east-1c to San Fransisco:
  • download speed: 1899 KB/s
  • upload speed: 759 KB/s
  • ping: 138 ms
To compare these results, here are some tests done at my swiss university:

From EPFL to New York:
  • download speed: 1130 KB/s
  • upload speed: 479 KB/s
  • ping: 109 ms
From EPFL to San Fransisco:
  • download speed: 682 KB/s
  • upload speed: 201 KB/s
  • ping: 377 ms

3 comments:

Shlomo said...

Just a word of caution: AWS availability zones are not named consistently for different customers. What for you might be called "us-east-1c" could be called "us-east-1a" for someone else.

Source: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1347

Jonathan Maïm said...

Thanks for Shlomo for pointing that !

Giannino's Blog said...

Thank your for sharing this with us, Jonathan. The speed is displayed in kilobytes or kilobites?

Cheers!