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Need to know that DO machines are NOT within AWS

Posted July 20, 2016 3k views
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Hi. I just rented a DO machine in Frankfurt. It is working great. One concern… I am using the DO machine to test latency within Germany to an Amazon machine. So I need to know that the DO machines are not resold AWS services. If so, I would just be testing latency within the Amazon building.

So are DO machines always within your own data centers?

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gparent July 20, 2016

Joke’s on you - AWS is actually resold DigitalOcean.

No, I’m kidding, but they are two separate companies and maintain their own infrastructure. You can be confident with your testing.

EDIT: They could use the same DCs. But it’s not going to be resold.

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  • asb July 20, 2016

    Just to add a bit to that, DigitalOcean’s FRA1 region is housed in a suite at Interxion’s Frankfurt location.

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chuckconnell July 20, 2016

Hhhmmm… Concerned about this part of your answer “they could use the same DCs. But it’s not going to be resold”.

So do you mean that a DO machine and an AWS machine could be in the same building?

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gparent July 20, 2016

while I don’t have an authoritative answer, it’s not out of the question. Datacenters are very large and contain many thousands of devices. It is very common for companies to share them.

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chuckconnell July 20, 2016

OK, thanks. I am seeing average latency of 6ms for a 5000 byte read operation from DO to AWS.

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