Deployment options for a container with latency related requirements

Paul Webster 25 Reputation points
2024-03-23T12:26:14.54+00:00

Good day all,

To begin I am on the free trial (just checking out if azure would be a good fit for my needs).

So far so good but I have hit a bit of a hitch and am not 100% sure how to go about resolving it.

I wish to run several docker instances, permenantly (likely for a greater time than 5 years) with the only requirement being the latency of external services they speak to.

These external services are hosted here: AWS ap-northeast-1 region (Tokyo, Japan)

I am aware using AWS I would of course get a great latency if I deployed to the same area, but I am leaving that as a absolute last resort - there panel is horrible.

Anyhow, Azure has a deployment zone for containers of Japan/East, its estimated latency to the AWS service is 102ms. This is around 5 times to great for what I was aiming for, I wished ideally to have around 10ms latency with a maximum of 20ms.

How or what should I do here?

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  1. Luke Murray 10,636 Reputation points MVP
    2024-03-23T22:23:08.6566667+00:00

    Hi, Paul

    You are bound by the internet link from Azure to the remote service.

    10ms to 20ms is pretty tight for access to internet-based services. These are express route speeds over the backend Microsoft backbone. Even if you were to set up a site-to-site VPN between Azure and AWS, the speed would be bound by that link.

    Is the AWS service within your control?

    If it is, set up a VM in AWS and Azure and run the Azure Connectivity Toolkit (Troubleshooting network performance) to get a valid speed test; then you could TEST a Virtual WAN/Site to Site connection to AWS as a test as well.

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