[keithyjohnson]

Who's excited about this? What's your use case that just became viable because of it? Definitely don't mean these questions in a condescending way, just want to get a read on the pulse from the folks here that will use it :)

[blaser-waffle]

Asia.

All of my Asian bandwidth comes through LA or Vancouver. Big, cheap peering with other telecoms to cross the ocean. We already have a decent colo presence in LA, this will allow us to consolidate some of that, and move other VMs.

[ismitley]

My understanding is that things like online games could take advantage of it, for the latency. Anything that has high latency concerns would be made better by having a closer endpoint.

[nemothekid]

The big use case I see are render farms. Moving terabytes of data can be made incrementally faster if the DC Is physically located closer.

[mixmastamyk]

Dreamworks are in Glendale and have been experimenting with cloud rendering last I heard. It's always been difficult due to bandwidth and latency bottlenecks.

Google has a new facility in the area as well: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/la/

[lalaithion]

Unless there's better bandwidth, this will be on the order of milliseconds.

[Pharaoh2]

Its mostly higher bandwidth from being closer to source. Latency is definitely improved but so is bandwidth if you are in peered in the same exchange. Peek bandwidth is going to be much higher, especially if you are pulling/pushing north of 10G.

[faitswulff]

Los Angeles and stated use case "Media & Entertainment" from the site seems like a big one, but I don't have my finger on the pulse, either.

[kylek]

This would be my guess too. Probably heavy on storage and encoding (AWS Elemental) gear at the location.

[zdraft]

I used to work for smilebooth, a portable photo/videobooth thing. I could see this in theory being used for realtime video processing like greenscreen? That said, it's not so hard to build greenscreen into the device itself (we did).

But, maybe it needs to do super high quality realtime 4K greenscreen that would overload an embedded CPU, and there's a built-in AWS library that does it, and the bandwidth is high enough, and you don't want to buy dedicated greenscreen HW that sits next to your booth (which is the other thing we did) then maybe.