(Illustration: Walk nearby Le Bouchon Ogasawara in Shibuya, Tokyo. Image source: Ernest)
✳️ tl;dr
With the launch of AWS Taipei Region (ap-east-2), it’s time to update that overgrown web latency testing tool.
- HTTP overhead is quite heavy, but when you don’t have CLI tools available or when dealing with remote clients, it can provide a simple evaluation.
- Arranged roughly according to city distances.
- Based on AWS Region naming rules, supplemented by my modest geographical knowledge.
- Following the principle of not over-categorizing to avoid too fine granularity. If your principles differ, feel welcome to fork from upstream and modify it to your liking.
- Google: “ernest latency ping tool”
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