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I'm just wondering. Theoretically, you have an additional hop.

Game server <--> Amazon <--> Home

From a pure latency point of view, this is probably not an issue. However, whatever events you see on screen, the game server sees you reacting slower, because your keyboard basically has a delay of 20-30ms (Home --> Amazon).

Maybe, it depends a bit on the game you play, if this has any negative consequences or not.

Edit: This could be somewhat compensated by the faster connection of Amazon <--> Game server (just assuming that it's faster than a connection from home).



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