Article: Trade-Offs in Multi-Region Architectures: Latency vs. Cost

Adding cloud regions changes latency and cost in ways simple math can't capture. This article presents a framework from multiple launches: decompose your latency budget before committing to infrastructure, choose deployment patterns by consistency and traffic profile, and optimize before expanding. A phased approach cut latency 35% through routing alone, before a new region brought it under 60ms.

By Uttara Asthana