network-traffic – Tarik Billa

What % of traffic is network overhead on top of HTTP/S requests

September 22, 2023 by Tarik

You have zero knowledge about the layers below HTTP. You can’t even assume the HTTP request will be delivered over TCP/IP. Even if it is, you have zero knowledge about the overhead added by the network layer. Or what the reliability of the route will be and what overhead will be due to dropped/resent packets. … Read more

EC2 instance types’s exact network performance?

October 23, 2022 by Tarik

Bandwidth is tiered by instance size, here’s a comprehensive answer: For t2/m3/c3/c4/r3/i2/d2 instances: t2.nano = ??? (Based on the scaling factors, I’d expect 20-30 MBit/s) t2.micro = ~70 MBit/s (qiita says 63 MBit/s) – t1.micro gets about ~100 Mbit/s t2.small = ~125 MBit/s (t2, qiita says 127 MBit/s, cloudharmony says 125 Mbit/s with spikes to … Read more