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Isn't there a way to get guaranteed bandwidth / throughput / speed from both parties in this? Not that compression isn't great but this seems to upper-bound pretty much anything.

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In the pure theoretical definition, packet switched networks (the internet) are not capable of giving you any guarantees on the throughput. Because of this, parties such as Amazon / Rackspace are unlikely to give you these guarantees either.

The closest thing you can get to guaranteed bandwidth today is to rent (dark) fiber between multiple DC's yourself.

True - although you can get pretty good approximations. Still though, the point is valid: it would be very expensive to guarantee. Performance profile could drop badly pretty much any time.

You can use AWS Direct Connect (http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/) to set up a dedicated 1Gbit or 10 Gbit network connection from an AWS region to the location of your choice.

Guaranteed?

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