This isn't exactly a programming question but it's relevant to programmers, and I'm looking for a data-backed, specific answer.
I'm working in a field where the size of the files we create is doubling roughly every 100 days. Nielsen's Law suggests that connection speeds are increasing by about 50% every year, which would mean doubling every 600 days. There is some talk of doing our processing on AWS or some other cloud computing service.
To me, this seems implausible, since the time required to upload the data will soon dwarf the time for processing. However, Nielsen's Law (original article by Nielsen) was made for end user connection speeds, so I'm not sure I can make my point with that.
Does anyone know of a public resource on AWS connection speeds, or institutional (e.g. university or corporation, not residential) connection speeds, over time? I'm wanting to know if it is just larger than residential, but still increasing at the same rate, or if for some reason connection speeds to institutional customers might be increasing faster than Nielsen's Law. Any help in finding evidence on the trend over time for this is appreciated.