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Network egress costs on AWS appear to be a factor of 10x more than dedicated servers. Google GCE is pretty much the same. That is a lot of negotiation that nee
by wstrange 11y ago
Network egress costs on AWS appear to be a factor of 10x more than dedicated servers. Google GCE is pretty much the same.
That is a lot of negotiation that needs to be done. Will they get anywhere close to that kind of discount?
How big a customer do you need to be?
- iofj 11y agoKeep in mind that if you're sufficiently large, you can negotiate better rates on dedi as well. Because of the massive competition in that market, you don't have to be that large to do it either.
- Scoundreller 11y agoReading between the lines, I think AWS has a huge upstream bandwidth bottleneck that it can't get around easily, while spread out small dedi providers have everything but this problem. (Speculation based on how AWS prices things: Build big, charge for everything, charge what it actually costs with a small markup, and put every high-margin provider out of business)