[nznog] Is content getting "closer"?

Hey, The AWS Sydney region has been available for 5 months now and, since it became available, the chatter about the importance of another wet string for competitive reasons has gone (mostly) quiet. Are these events correlated? Is content getting closer (and by that I mean avg(rtt) over a large sample of connections)? Has anyone done an internal study of their transit? Does WAND have a dataset they're analysing? Thanks, Jed.