Eu sugeriria que a resposta agora é Sydney, Austrália!
Tempo de ping de uma conexão residencial ADSL2 em Melbourne:
$ping -c 10 ec2-54-252-25-79.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com
PING ec2-54-252-25-79.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com (54.252.25.79): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=29.044 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=30.983 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=29.424 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=30.563 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=31.842 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=31.564 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=30.730 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=7 ttl=49 time=30.797 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=8 ttl=49 time=32.737 ms
64 bytes from 54.252.25.79: icmp_seq=9 ttl=49 time=30.984 ms
--- ec2-54-252-25-79.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 29.044/30.867/32.737/1.024 ms
Sweeet!