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by ShabbyDoo 5679 days ago
How's your latency? An advantage of connecting to an EC2 instance seems to be that you're getting your traffic onto the backbone without eating a "last mile" roundtrip to your house.

EC2 scenario:

coffee shop -> backbone -> EC2 -> backbone -> remote site (probably hosted somewhere close to your EC2 instance, especially if a CDN is in use)

Home scenario:

coffee shop -> backbone -> cable provider -> home -> cable provider -> backbone -> remote server