Answer: It really depends on the S3 region and the endpoint. We've been conducting latency and throughput testing on these and other cloud services for about 6 months using our cloud speedtest http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest . Here are some high level results. US Connections * CloudFront: 52.3...
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