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> Disagree. There's no false advertising here I don't see any claims about false advertising. Just complaints about one aspect of the service being very overpr

by _jal 9y ago

> Disagree. There's no false advertising here I don't see any claims about false advertising. Just complaints about one aspect of the service being very overpriced. Sounds like you consider it worth it for your application, and that's great. But it is simply not priced appropriately for a lot of services, which naturally go elsewhere. It seems obvious to me that bandwidth is Azon's proxy measure for "utility". Lots of companies do this - Oracle uses core-count as a proxy for the "utility" you get from their software, for example. But like any proxy for a different variable, it is going to be wrong; sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. And you hardly need to be a "BIG" company to choose something other than cloud hosting. My last two looked at and rejected them. Neither qualify as even medium-sized. Both are extremely cost-aware. Running our own data centers is cost-competitive at my current gig and was much, much cheaper at the last, which was very bandwidth-heavy.

amygdyl 9y ago
If every cloud service arguably overprices one essential part of delivery, bandwidth usage in this case, my instinct (no more, no less and no pretension to analysis) is that there's a design intent to ensure a difficult to price component of the service provision is paid for. I'm merely speculating, but if you have a idea what is the possible difficult to price component, can anyone help with any suggestions? Edit to suggest a similitude: my job is to help people understand the price of (print) advertising. This is often intractable. To a certain extent, a good deal of people involved just throw costs into commission rates and other factors that make understanding the price models difficult and sometimes completely opaque. Is it impossible to imagine that the cost of cloud bandwidth is nothing less innocent than "put our non itemized expenses here'?

by _jal 9y ago

amygdyl 9y ago

If every cloud service arguably overprices one essential part of delivery, bandwidth usage in this case, my instinct (no more, no less and no pretension to analysis) is that there's a design intent to ensure a difficult to price component of the service provision is paid for. I'm merely speculating, but if you have a idea what is the possible difficult to price component, can anyone help with any suggestions? Edit to suggest a similitude: my job is to help people understand the price of (print) advertising. This is often intractable. To a certain extent, a good deal of people involved just throw costs into commission rates and other factors that make understanding the price models difficult and sometimes completely opaque. Is it impossible to imagine that the cost of cloud bandwidth is nothing less innocent than "put our non itemized expenses here'?