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Given that these databases run in AWS, there's no reason you can't run your application in the same datacenter.


well, except that AWS doesn't let you coordinate AZ's between customers [1]

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_can_I_make_sure_that_I_a...


Maybe not officially, but I believe "is in the same AZ" is an equivalence relation, so once you've figured out the appropriate permutation function...


I get 1 ms or lower latency between AZs.


I get about 1.5ms to 1.6ms ping latency between AZs and about .3ms to .4ms between nodes in the same AZ (west-1).




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