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Are bandwidth in costs free? Are you referring to bandwidth out costs? I don't work for them but I imagine they model bandwidth out as disk reads for accessing
by snissn 10y ago
Are bandwidth in costs free? Are you referring to bandwidth out costs? I don't work for them but I imagine they model bandwidth out as disk reads for accessing and reading your data. Think about how much it would cost to read at the rate of a 1 gigabit line from disk continuously for a month. Put a CDN in front of S3 if you have high bandwidth costs and low diversity of files.
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- dx034 10y agoDue to the high traffic volume, they peer with most large providers. Of course they need to pay rent on the fiber that they rent between DCs and peering points, but at this level the cost should be rather low. And a lot of the traffic will be free, especially in Europe where you can peer with many providers on exchanges.
- jorangreef 10y agoThat would go a way towards understanding the over-inflated egress (bandwidth out) costs, if S3 did not already charge for disk reads. S3 already have request pricing in place: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/#Request_Pricing https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/#Request_Pricing In addition to that, the pricing for "Data Transfer OUT From Amazon S3 To Internet" is exactly the same as for "Data Transfer OUT From Amazon EC2 To Internet", so this is not specific to S3 but to EC2 and AWS as a whole it seems. AWS appear to have really expensive egress costs (or really profitable egress margins) compared to OVH and Hetzner. If so, then something is stuck, either the costs are not being addressed or the margins are not being passed on.