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Indeed, so obligatory that I included it in my blog post:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/05/send-us-that-data.html

Kudos (to all of you at Amazon) for being the first to turn that quote into a product feature. Certainly seems obvious in retrospect.

On the contrary, video delivery networks (VDNs) have been recommending loading data this way for years, such as one that's routinely internationally FedEx-ing those cheap 2TB "network" drives back and forth in small white mil-spec shipping cases.

Sometimes a big truck has more bandwidth than a series of tubes...

Bandwidth and latency are two different things. But it seems we are so often confused by these two concepts.

I feel funny because Werner Vogels is Andy Tannenbaum's phd student. That's how a concept propagates from one generation to next.

Terrible latency, though.