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AWS and the like make a killing from the basic fact that most web devs don't know anything about the real costs of bandwidth (a blind spot, if you will). HE.ne
by kkielhofner 8y ago
AWS and the like make a killing from the basic fact that most web devs don't know anything about the real costs of bandwidth (a blind spot, if you will).
HE.net is currently advertising 10gig ethernet for $1300/mo. Obviously there are various scaling issues associated with this but the basic premise still holds - AWS and other cloud services need major pressure to push their bandwidth prices down.
- jauer 8y agoThis is less about cost of bandwidth and more costs of having edge POPs around the world. With cloudfront (or any other edge cache system), you get TCP termination closer to end-users so the site loads faster, particularly if you have users around the world. Dropbox case study: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/06/evolution-of-dropboxs-edge-network/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/06/evolution-of-dropboxs... Edge cache bandwidth costs quite a bit more than the not quite bottom of barrel IP transit that HE.net is selling.