For those unfamiliar with Kentik, they are a player in the observability space known for their unparalleled expertise when it comes to network visibility and comprehension. Their platform provides visibility across networks and clouds, combining best-in-class query performance, actionable AI, and automated context enrichment to enable rapid optimization of cloud networks.
Kentik Cloud, which is a product offering that has been on the market for some time now, enables network, DevOps, and security teams alike to answer any question about cloud traffic, connectivity, or performance. Users can visualize traffic flow out of their own datacenter and across AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, OCI, and Kubernetes in an interactive way.
To help people understand the power of Kentik Cloud, the company today announced that it will be giving some of it away for free as a public resource. The Cloud Latency Map allows anyone to explore the latencies measured between over 100 different cloud regions located around the world. For the first time, users can identify recent changes in latencies between various public clouds and data center regions, even across continents.
"The Cloud Latency Map benefits anyone trying to determine if there is a connectivity issue impacting the latencies to particular cloud regions," said Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at Kentik and the creator of The Cloud Latency Map. "And since the public clouds rely on the same physical infrastructure as the rest of the global Internet, the map can often pick up on the latency impacts of a variety of failures of core infrastructure, such as the loss of a major submarine cable."
The Cloud Latency Map uses live measurement data generated by a full mesh of measurements between over 100 cloud agents hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and IBM. As an agnostic third party, Kentik is in a unique position to publish latency data across all major public clouds that has never been continuously available before. This newfound data can help digital businesses optimize their multi-cloud networks and identify impacts to cloud connectivity.
Whether you are a researcher, analyst, or network engineer wondering if the problem is with you or the network – give the tool a spin. It's quite a bit of fun to just click around and see the latency measurements and changes across different clouds and regions. And if you want to get more serious about optimizing your cloud architecture, check out the paid Kentik Cloud offering.
