Surrounded by the Clouds: A Comprehensive Cloud Reachability Study

Lorenzo Corneo, Maximilian Eder, Nitinder Mohan, Aleksandr Zavodovski , Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Jussi Kangasharju, Per Gunningberg, Jörg Ott

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Abstract

In the early days of cloud computing, datacenters were sparsely deployed at distant locations far from end-users with high end-to-end communication latency. However, today’s cloud datacenters have become more geographically spread, the bandwidth of the networks keeps increasing, pushing the end-users latency down. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive cloud reachability study as we perform extensive global client-to-cloud latency measurements towards 189 datacenters from all major cloud providers. We leverage the well-known measurement platform RIPE Atlas, involving up to 8500 probes deployed in heterogeneous environments, e.g., home and offices. Our goal is to evaluate the suitability of modern cloud environments for various current and predicted applications. We achieve this by comparing our latency measurements against known human perception thresholds and are able to draw inferences on the suitability of current clouds for novel applications, such as augmented reality. Our results indicate that the current cloud coverage can easily support several latency-critical applications, like cloud gaming, for the majority of the world’s population.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021
PublisherACM Publishing
Pages295-304
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450383127
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Apr 2021
Event30th Web Conference, WWW 2021 - Online Event
Duration: 1 Apr 20211 Apr 2021
Conference number: 30

Conference

Conference30th Web Conference, WWW 2021
Abbreviated titleWWW 2021
CityOnline Event
Period1/04/211/04/21

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