An information handling system of a first gateway access point in a wireless network includes at least one wireless adapter for receiving a plurality of reply messages including information that can be used to calculate a plurality of traffic factor values describing traffic flow between one of a plurality of gateways in the wireless network and a cloud computing resource, and a processor executing code instructions of a wireless network gateway sink nomination system. The wireless network gateway sink nomination system may calculate a traffic factor value for each of the plurality of gateways, based on the reply messages, received from with each gateway identify a most desirable sink gateway from the plurality of gateways, and transmit the identity of the most desirable sink gateway to the plurality of gateways for transmitting data bound for the cloud computing resource via the most desirable sink gateway.