OVH sees it's object store as public traffic from VPS and Public Cloud?

OVH sees it's object store as public traffic from VPS and Public Cloud?(reddit.com)

1 points by benboughton1 5 years ago | 3 comments

Does this seem odd to others? Does AWS give 'local' access speed to s3 from EC2 on same locations?

detaro 5 years ago | |

AWS as far as I know does not promise a specific "public" speed, they only give you the speed of the local network interface (for some instances just in vague terms, not as a number), and the internet connection is somewhere below that. The internet access is also an extra component there, e.g. you connect a gateway to your instances local network.

Your typical VPS provider setup doesn't work that way, so it's not very surprising they just apply one speed limit to the interface, which is geared towards public traffic limits, whereas with AWS the interface limit is geared towards internal traffic and the external limit set elsewhere. With some VPS providers you can get an internal network as an extra.

benboughton1 5 years ago | | |

Thanks. I wrongly assumed OVH would as you describe AWS, especially when setting up an 'instance' in their 'public cloud'. I just a quick look at their Vrack product to see if it links instances to object storage. Doesn't look like it.