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title: "Ben Dicken on X: \"I am once again begging you to put your data..."
description: "!https://x.com/BenjDicken/status/1963998076198105475"
date: 2025-09-06
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  - cloud
  - thought
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This is a really great animation of latency across different aws regions based on us-east-1.