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I've had a few complaints of slow performance from different quarters of the globe after a move to AWS.

This is a general question I guess, but how does one go about identifying performance for users who are geographically disparate? I.e. I'd like to see, trace and analyse the experience on a New Zealand user to our European AWS stack.

Obviously proxy's can help (wherever they may be), but are there established ways and means here?

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To provide enough information to point you in the right direction would fill a sizable book. – symcbean Nov 28 '11 at 13:07
Great - thanks very much. – waxical Nov 28 '11 at 13:48

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You'd have to define "performance" first. This is harder than it looks.

Other than that, proper log files, DNS latency timings, and a geoIP database to draw from would go a long way.

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Specifically, I'm getting hassle for slow download speeds of videos. This is going over cloudfront, so would assume it'd be taken care of and logs are restrictive - as I'm not directly passing the stuff. – waxical Nov 28 '11 at 14:22
...that's a bit more specific. How are you serving up these files? Since they will be downloaded in large chunks, the problem has little to do with latency and is all about bandwidth. Which is mainly a problem at the client end. But usniog a CDN should help. – symcbean Nov 28 '11 at 17:53

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