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The article assertion is very big in computing = Microsoft of the 90s. I can be wrong but there have not been any anti-competition steps taken at AWS yet. AWS
by thisisit 9y ago
The article assertion is very big in computing = Microsoft of the 90s. I can be wrong but there have not been any anti-competition steps taken at AWS yet.
AWS has been light years ahead when it came to cloud computing and now they are having the first mover advantage and the dominant position. But will it last very long? It is very hard to say, over the years companies which were thought infallible have gone down.
- pacala 9y agoTry moving your data outside AWS. Store data, $0.023 / GB / month. Access your data outside of AWS, $0.090 / GB. It's more expensive to transfer data outside of AWS once than to store it on AWS for a quarter. Not entirely sure what you meed by "anti-competitive steps taken by Microsoft in the '90s", but holding customer data hostage is as anti-competitive as it gets.
- jimmaswell 9y agoHow is this anti competitive? It reflects that it costs more for Amazon to access data outside its services than inside.
- jazoom 9y agoI think the point is those fees are ridiculous.
- jimmaswell 9y agoI don't really have a reference, but $0.023/GB really isn't striking me as anything.
- pacala 9y agoIt's 0.09 $/GB, or 11 GB/$. Residential gigabit is available say from Centurylink, for $85/month, or 4TB/$. AWS is about 500 times more expensive.
- otp124 9y agoStorage costs are cheaper than network costs. Oranges and apples.
- pacala 9y agoEstimating bandwidth costs is fun. From Azure [0], "Within a given region, we can support up to 1.6 Pbps of inter-datacenter bandwidth.". Pretty reasonable to assume this is industry standard capability. Using 0.09 $/GB pricing, the sticker price for a second comes at about $16k, or about $41B per month. We're several orders of magnitude off a reasonable figure. Safe to say cloud providers are charging exorbitant markups for bandwidth, which coincidentally helps customer lock-in. [0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-microsoft-builds-its-fast-and-reliable-global-network/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-microsoft-builds-...