yes, sure. Taking data from the same zone will reduce latency and save you some money.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Brian Tarbox <[email protected]>wrote: > We're running a C* cluster with 6 servers spread across the four us-east1 > zones. > > We also spread our clients (hundreds of them) across the four zones. > > Currently we give our clients a connection string listing all six servers > and let C* do its thing. > > This is all working just fine...and we're paying a fair bit in AWS > transfer costs. There is a suspicion that this transfer cost is driven by > us passing data around between our C* servers and clients. > > Would there be any value to trying to get a client to talk to one of the > C* servers in its own zone? > > I understand (at least partially!) about coordinator nodes and replication > and know that no matter which server is the coordinator for an operation > replication may cause bits to get transferred to/from servers in other > zones. Having said that...is there a chance that trying to encourage a > client to initially contact a server in its own zone would help? > > Thank you, > > Brian Tarbox > >
