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Try 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 o
by pacala 9y ago
Try 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-...