Interesting. If you click on one of the blue circles representing a data center, it shows latencies to the other data centers.
This took me a second to figure out — maybe consider adding a note along the lines of “click to select a data center” on the site?
These aren't even data centers, but aggregates. They're regions, composed of many different bits of networking and compute in various levels of abstraction - dc, edge installation, whatever.
Within these regions there's a lot of variation from zone to zone, so the methodology matters.
I appreciate the effort to collect the data, but I think the rotating globe is an idea that looks cool, but makes the visualization harder to use. If I click on us-east-1, there's a 229ms line to...somewhere that I can't see. Meanwhile, I can't see the latency between us-east-1 and us-east-2.
Perhaps if you selected a datacenter, and it switched to a 2-d projection with that datacenter at the center of the map, it would be better?
Or perhaps augment the visualization with a table?
Author here - You can see the raw data as a table here: https://www.cloudping.co. Sometimes visualizations like this are a careful act of balancing practicality with cool-factor.
