I couldn’t find any info out there comparing network latency across EC2 Availability Zones and inside any single Availability Zone. So I took 6 instances (2 on each US zone), ran some test using a simple ping, and measured 10 Round Trip Times (RTT). Here are the results. Single Availablity Zone Latency Availability Zone Minimum RTT Maximum RTT Average RTT us-east-1a 0.215ms 0.348ms 0.263ms us-east