[prakash]

Here's the 24h latency data on EC2 east, west, eu, apac: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-24h.png

Last 60 minutes comparison data: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-60m.png

time in GMT.

A study we (Cedexis) did in January comparing multiple ec2 zones and other cloud providers: (pdf) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/76-marty-kagan.pdf

[jjm]

Pure opinion: That convergence might show that Amazon tried to do a failover on a DC level. Once they figured that wouldn't work or east was down for the count they just let it cycle to the ground under latency.