Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
by Jarwain on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:24AM
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The origin of which, for those who aren't familiar, is a game called "hot potato" where you try to pass a ball around as quickly as possible as if it was a hot potato
Hold onto the packet for as long as you can vs hand it off to your peer as quickly as possible.
Most networks do "hot", Google does "cold" since their network is almost always better than that of the peer.