Benchmarking Network Speeds for Traffic between Cornell and “The Cloud”

by Paul Allen

As Cornell units consider moving various software and services to the cloud, one of the most common questions the Cloudification Services Team gets is “What is the network bandwidth between cloud infrastructure and campus?” Bandwidth to cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure seems critical now, as units are transitioning operations. It’s during that transition that units will have hybrid operations–part on-premise and part in-cloud–and moving or syncing large chunks of data is common.

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