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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by chipperyman573 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:50PM (#13134161)
40GB/s??? How does amazon expect to put an entire region in there and to share the 40GB/s with the other hosts already up there (OVH)?
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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by rgbrenner on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:39PM (#13135720)
"averaging 40gbps" != "maximum 40gbps"

Also, qix puts their member list online, and Amazon has a 10gbps port: http://www.qix.ca/en/members/membership

From 2013: "deployed over 180 Gbps of capacity into the exchange." https://www.cologix.com/pdf/QIX-Case-Study.pdf

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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by otoburb on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:08PM (#13134323)
If we believe the Cacti graphs, over the past several weeks the Montréal QIX peaked at 50Gbps[1]. Your comment implies that the QIX might be running over a mere 40Gbps link, but presumably their aggregate link capacity is (much?) higher than that.

[1] http://www.qix.ca/en/qix/network

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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by mcmatterson on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:03PM (#13136108)
That's 40gbps of voluntary (technically settlement free, but not in the usual meaning of the term) peering, not paid transit. Paid transit numbers are several orders of magnitude higher, and total traffic numbers are unknown.
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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by antaviana on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:07PM (#13134742)
Amazon connections between regions are owned by Amazon. Only last mile traffic would need to go to an Exchange.
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