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Using AWS's simple calculator[0] for S3, I get a figure of $97.82 for 250GB storage and 1TB data transfer out per month. DO's price is $5. I know AWS is conside

Using AWS's simple calculator[0] for S3, I get a figure of $97.82 for 250GB storage and 1TB data transfer out per month. DO's price is $5. I know AWS is considered more expensive but that's a huge difference - is my calculation wrong here? [0]http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

purvis 9y ago
Do you have something else in your estimate? It shows as $5.63 for me.
- dolphin2x 9y ago
  Are you missing 1TB of transfer out?
  - purvis 9y ago
    Yep, thanks. Didn't change it to TB on the calculator.
slyzmud 9y ago
I was chosen to use the preview and the pricing was originally was $0.02 storage and $0.01 transfer without the first $5. I guess that most of the people spent a lot less than $5. Increasing the minimum spend to 5 should give them a great profit for the people that don't use it that much. I don't know what will happen if a lot of people start using it a lot.
- rkangel 9y ago
  > I don't know what will happen if a lot of people start using it a lot. That's almost always a nice problem to have. If it was profitable in small scale usage, then it's usually profitable in widespread usage once economies of scale have been applied.
joshribakoff 9y ago
Yes Digital Ocean / Linode bandwidth is 40x cheaper than AWS. Amazon also charges extra for a support plan so you can open a ticket, and inform them of their bugs. And we have found bugs in AWS infrastructure that still remains unfixed, because we have a disproportionate amount of IE users. They essentially forced us to stand up a linode proxy infront of s3 & create our own CDN, since theirs did not work for our users. In the process we saved 4,000% on our bandwidth.
- kingbirdy 9y ago
  how could you save more than 100%?
  - tomcam 9y ago
    Reluctantly upvoted because while I am trying desperately to cut down on my own snarkiness, I deeply value precision in language
  - thehardsphere 9y ago
    Maybe bandwidth went up in the same period the price went down? Just a guess.
  - joshribakoff 9y ago
    What I should have said is its 40x cheaper. But I guess if you factor in not losing customers due to obscure IE problems on AWS, we could have saved over 100% ;) by not losing customers. Some businesses don't need to worry about obscure IE problems, and AWS will make sense, for us it didn't.
- EGreg 9y ago
  When you say bandwidth, what are you referring to specifically? The biggest reason Linode didn't make sense for us is that we couldn't scale hard drive space without scaling everything else, too. As the site grew this became pretty crazy.
  - jlgaddis 9y ago
kyledrake 9y ago
No, you are correct. AWS charges inexplicably ridiculous prices for bandwidth. By my calculations, the last time their bandwidth rates were market-competitive was in 2007. Market rate is actually below $0.01/GB even, but I'm very comfortable paying that rate for a multi-homed connection to a managed service.
- foolinaround 9y ago
  s/unexplainably/inexplicably
  - kyledrake 9y ago
    Fixed, thanks.
- lathiat 9y ago
  You should try buying bandwidth somewhere that is not the US :-) or possibly central Europe. Not to say they don't also charge that for bandwidth in those locations, but per-GB pricing in Australia is more like 20-50c/GB

purvis 9y ago

Do you have something else in your estimate? It shows as $5.63 for me.

dolphin2x 9y ago
Are you missing 1TB of transfer out?
- purvis 9y ago
  Yep, thanks. Didn't change it to TB on the calculator.

slyzmud 9y ago

I was chosen to use the preview and the pricing was originally was $0.02 storage and $0.01 transfer without the first $5. I guess that most of the people spent a lot less than $5. Increasing the minimum spend to 5 should give them a great profit for the people that don't use it that much. I don't know what will happen if a lot of people start using it a lot.

rkangel 9y ago
> I don't know what will happen if a lot of people start using it a lot. That's almost always a nice problem to have. If it was profitable in small scale usage, then it's usually profitable in widespread usage once economies of scale have been applied.

joshribakoff 9y ago

Yes Digital Ocean / Linode bandwidth is 40x cheaper than AWS. Amazon also charges extra for a support plan so you can open a ticket, and inform them of their bugs. And we have found bugs in AWS infrastructure that still remains unfixed, because we have a disproportionate amount of IE users. They essentially forced us to stand up a linode proxy infront of s3 & create our own CDN, since theirs did not work for our users. In the process we saved 4,000% on our bandwidth.

kingbirdy 9y ago
how could you save more than 100%?
- tomcam 9y ago
  Reluctantly upvoted because while I am trying desperately to cut down on my own snarkiness, I deeply value precision in language
- thehardsphere 9y ago
  Maybe bandwidth went up in the same period the price went down? Just a guess.
- joshribakoff 9y ago
  What I should have said is its 40x cheaper. But I guess if you factor in not losing customers due to obscure IE problems on AWS, we could have saved over 100% ;) by not losing customers. Some businesses don't need to worry about obscure IE problems, and AWS will make sense, for us it didn't.
EGreg 9y ago
When you say bandwidth, what are you referring to specifically? The biggest reason Linode didn't make sense for us is that we couldn't scale hard drive space without scaling everything else, too. As the site grew this became pretty crazy.
- jlgaddis 9y ago

kyledrake 9y ago

No, you are correct. AWS charges inexplicably ridiculous prices for bandwidth. By my calculations, the last time their bandwidth rates were market-competitive was in 2007. Market rate is actually below $0.01/GB even, but I'm very comfortable paying that rate for a multi-homed connection to a managed service.

foolinaround 9y ago
s/unexplainably/inexplicably
- kyledrake 9y ago
  Fixed, thanks.
lathiat 9y ago
You should try buying bandwidth somewhere that is not the US :-) or possibly central Europe. Not to say they don't also charge that for bandwidth in those locations, but per-GB pricing in Australia is more like 20-50c/GB