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I wonder how it translates to the money savings for Google and end users. A quick estimate based on prices quoted by Google Cloud Engine for Egress transfers (
by tener 10y ago
I wonder how it translates to the money savings for Google and end users.
A quick estimate based on prices quoted by Google Cloud Engine for Egress transfers ($0.08/GB) gives $183 million in yearly savings.
Surely Google pays much less than that for their own transfers, but even if we assume they are paying 1% of that price it is still respectable. Pretty sure they are paying more than that though.
EDIT: Found better estimates - Amazon Cloudfront is charging as low as $0.02/GB (on demand pricing), which translates to $46 million. Given very good knowledge Google has about their users and their vast infrastructure I'm guessing their costs are fraction of this. Anyone with domain knowledge that can comment on this?
- reitzensteinm 10y agoI'm very much not in the know (my personal experience tops out at renting gigabit lines at 95th percentile), but it's my understanding that at extreme scale, you're doing peering arrangements directly with ISPs, and provisioning a fixed amount of bandwidth with them. It wouldn't surprise me if Google was scheduling the majority of updates to take place in off peak times, when the bandwidth would simply be otherwise unused. If so, the cost to Google would be a rounding error of your estimate based on GCE traffic prices.
- walrus01 10y agoFor end users: Google is well aware of how many android phones are being used in the developing world. Something like 97% of the smartphone market in Myanmar is on android 4.2 and later. 1GB of data paid via scratch card is a lot of money for some people.