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Let's hope Amazon doesn't start doing something anticompetitive with the network routing to B2 from EC2, and instead competes on price.
by microcolonel 9y ago
Let's hope Amazon doesn't start doing something anticompetitive with the network routing to B2 from EC2, and instead competes on price.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoWhat’s the point of an answer like that? Does Amazon have a history of sabotaging network links between, say, Google’s or MSFT’s networks and their own? Or is this just an attempt at being funny?
- jjeaff 9y agoThey have a history of sabotaging anyone who competes with them, though not with AWS. For example, they banned all Chromecast sales from amazon.com after they launched the firetv.
- kondro 9y agoWith multi-region redundancy only (as reduced redundancy is actually more expensive) and amazing integration and workflow options, B2 and S3 are not comparable products.
- sitepodmatt 9y agoI don't think that would happen. S3 is already at a competitive advantage in same region due to the absence of data transfer costs you typically pay. I'd be more interested if Blackblaze purchased several 10gig links per region to AWS under an arrangement like DirectConnect, or had alternative direct peering with AWS removing transit and peering exchange risks. I dont think current DirectConnect is compatible with this though as it seems Blackblaze would have to swallow all the traffic costs for every customer. I could be wrong though...