Hi @TOKEN_HOUSE. After some more testing, we want to make sure that your testing has accounted for time required for TLS handshakes.
Please see another recent topic, here: Expected read latency from California on Classic Region Group?
If you can ensure that the Fauna client is reused in your application, then the TLS handshake can be insignificant in general to the latency of your requests. But if you have to establish a new connection for each request, then you will add maybe 100ms or more for every request.