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ap22213 on Nov 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Google Is Challenging AWS

I didn't realize that they have direct connections. The AWS data center down the street (Virginia) is directly connected to some google cloud datacenter? Sorry - I'm generally ignorant of datacenter technology.

So a back of envelope calculation says that it would take around 10 days to transfer 100 PiB over Gigabit ethernet. When you say immense, do you mean faster than that?

mikecb on Dec 1, 2016 | [–]

Google's new NoVa DC will probably be in/around the equinix right down the street from AWS.

dekhn on Nov 30, 2016 | | [–]

I would say at least multiple 10Gbit interfaces if you wanted to transfer the data.

paulddraper on Dec 1, 2016 | | [–]

Transferring 100 PiB at 10 Gbps (1.3 GiB/s) takes 121 days.

NetStrikeForce on Nov 30, 2016 | [–]

They probably meet at some exchange very close to the DCs

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