Bigtables are in asia-east-1b, but should be in us-east or us-central. Changing this will significantly improve the latency of viz.measurementlab.net, as right now all data travels across the pacific ocean for no reason.
Also, we have 15 GCE instances allocated for our bigtables, but only really need 5 or fewer (3 is the minimum).
from @pboothe but in the wrong repo, closing https://github.com/m-lab/ops-tracker/issues/231 and creating this issue.
Bigtables are in asia-east-1b, but should be in us-east or us-central. Changing this will significantly improve the latency of viz.measurementlab.net, as right now all data travels across the pacific ocean for no reason.
Also, we have 15 GCE instances allocated for our bigtables, but only really need 5 or fewer (3 is the minimum).