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When choosing an amazon aws instance type to launch, there is a property of each type which is "Network Performance" which is either "Low", "Moderate", or "High". I'm wondering what this exactly means. Will my ping be lower if I choose low? Or will it be ok as long as many users aren't logged in at once?
I'm launching a real time multiplayer game and I am so I am curious as to exactly what is meant under "network performance". I actually need fairly low memory and processing power, but instances with those criteria usually have "low" network performance.
Has anyone experience with the different network performances or have more information?
Thanks!
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When the network traffic for an instance exceeds a maximum, AWS shapes the traffic that exceeds the maximum by queueing and then dropping network packets. You can monitor when traffic exceeds a maximum using the network performance metrics.
AWS networking services allow customers to separate their cloud infrastructure, scale-up workload request and even connect the physical network to personal private virtual networks.
VPC Traffic Mirroring is an AWS feature used to copy network traffic from the elastic network interface of an EC2 instance to a target for analysis. This makes a variety of network-based monitoring and analytics solutions possible on AWS.
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks. These checks identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas.
It's not oficial, but Serhiy Topchiy did a benchmark with different instance types:
http://epamcloud.blogspot.com.br/2013/03/testing-amazon-ec2-network-speed.html
For US-EAST-1, it seems that LOW corresponds to 50Mb/s, Moderate corresponds to 300Mb/s and High corresponds to 1Gb/s.
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