Best way to find AWS server with lowest hop count between servers

Hi,

The best tool for the job is traceroute. Have you used it before?

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-11-211 ~]$ traceroute 8.8.8.8

traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

1 216.182.226.220 (216.182.226.220) 190.865 ms 216.182.237.227 (216.182.237.227) 99.642 ms 99.630 ms

2 100.66.12.160 (100.66.12.160) 13.744 ms 100.65.65.144 (100.65.65.144) 6.517 ms 100.66.8.64 (100.66.8.64) 66.327 ms

3 100.66.10.120 (100.66.10.120) 6.488 ms 100.66.14.98 (100.66.14.98) 12.536 ms 100.66.48.32 (100.66.48.32) 6.490 ms

4 100.66.50.182 (100.66.50.182) 6.453 ms 100.66.34.142 (100.66.34.142) 13.740 ms 241.0.11.195 (241.0.11.195) 6.431 ms

5 241.0.11.215 (241.0.11.215) 6.420 ms 241.0.11.207 (241.0.11.207) 6.409 ms 241.0.11.223 (241.0.11.223) 6.397 ms

6 242.2.10.169 (242.2.10.169) 6.410 ms 240.0.160.24 (240.0.160.24) 0.376 ms 240.0.160.18 (240.0.160.18) 0.353 ms

7 52.93.29.43 (52.93.29.43) 0.933 ms 52.93.29.63 (52.93.29.63) 0.803 ms 52.93.29.53 (52.93.29.53) 0.792 ms

8 52.93.29.45 (52.93.29.45) 0.777 ms 100.100.4.12 (100.100.4.12) 1.185 ms 52.93.29.43 (52.93.29.43) 0.887 ms

9 100.100.4.2 (100.100.4.2) 0.844 ms 100.100.2.38 (100.100.2.38) 1.572 ms 99.83.68.209 (99.83.68.209) 1.667 ms

10 * * 99.83.65.3 (99.83.65.3) 0.913 ms

11 dns.google (8.8.8.8) 1.089 ms 1.143 ms 0.989 ms

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-11-211 ~]$

Best, Diego