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As an aside, typical wholesale prices in the US, for moving 200gb of data is about 50 cents, or less. So what is current cloud pricing for 200 gb of egress?

atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We charge $0.01/gb for egress. With this Alliance announcement, that'll be $0.00 from Backblaze B2 to Cloudflare. We have similar partnerships in place with Packet and ServerCentral already!
- partiallypro 8y ago
  Not exactly a fair comparison to other Cloud providers on cost for egress, since you largely just do backups. So most data is incoming rather than outgoing. I assume you don't charge for incoming data either, and most providers don't...just adding a caveat as to why you are so so cheap compared to AWS and Azure.
  - atYevP 8y ago
    Our Online Backup service is primarily for backing up computers, but Backblaze B2 is used for a wide variety of things including origin-stores, and those use-cases are pretty in-line with what folks use Azure and GCS for - so should be pretty similar - unless I misunderstood!
    - partiallypro 8y ago
      I guess I should say I mean you aren't offering compute services so you probably have less egress than the others, afiak. Just a wild guess.
zackbloom 8y ago
AWS starts at $0.15/GB, so $30. It's an unbelievable ripoff, particularly given if AWS is peered with your destination they are actually paying $0.
- partiallypro 8y ago
  Azure is $0.08/GB, which still seems high
- koolba 8y ago
  In what region? I see $0.09/GB as the starting price for the first 1 TB. Granted it’s still way overpriced but it’d be $18, not $30.
  - skunkworker 8y ago
    For one of my products this is single handedly 50% of our costs on AWS.
- ucaetano 8y ago
  > they are actually paying $0 Nope, they have to pay transport to the peering point (or own it).
  - adrr 8y ago
    How much is a 10 gigabit peer connection? I know you can buy 1 Gb connections for $500/m at some datacenters.
    - sitepodmatt 8y ago
      Plus the rack at one of the supported colo neutral of the peering exchange say $800mo usually an equinix or telehouss,plus the cross connect $300mo, plus redudant protected circuits to your data center from the incumbents, plus juniper/Cisco/arista 100gb gear, HA/failover double the prior, plus your onsite hands or remote hands, plus the SFPs and sparwa, plus insurance plus all sorts of shit just for a NAP - presuming you don't have one already at said location. There a lot more to costs than pricelist for LINx, or Deix or whatever advertise. this a great announcement from cloudflare
      - patrickg_zill 8y ago

atYevP 8y ago

Yev from Backblaze here -> We charge $0.01/gb for egress. With this Alliance announcement, that'll be $0.00 from Backblaze B2 to Cloudflare. We have similar partnerships in place with Packet and ServerCentral already!

partiallypro 8y ago
Not exactly a fair comparison to other Cloud providers on cost for egress, since you largely just do backups. So most data is incoming rather than outgoing. I assume you don't charge for incoming data either, and most providers don't...just adding a caveat as to why you are so so cheap compared to AWS and Azure.
- atYevP 8y ago
  Our Online Backup service is primarily for backing up computers, but Backblaze B2 is used for a wide variety of things including origin-stores, and those use-cases are pretty in-line with what folks use Azure and GCS for - so should be pretty similar - unless I misunderstood!
  - partiallypro 8y ago
    I guess I should say I mean you aren't offering compute services so you probably have less egress than the others, afiak. Just a wild guess.

zackbloom 8y ago

AWS starts at $0.15/GB, so $30. It's an unbelievable ripoff, particularly given if AWS is peered with your destination they are actually paying $0.

partiallypro 8y ago
Azure is $0.08/GB, which still seems high
koolba 8y ago
In what region? I see $0.09/GB as the starting price for the first 1 TB. Granted it’s still way overpriced but it’d be $18, not $30.
- skunkworker 8y ago
  For one of my products this is single handedly 50% of our costs on AWS.
ucaetano 8y ago
> they are actually paying $0 Nope, they have to pay transport to the peering point (or own it).
- adrr 8y ago
  How much is a 10 gigabit peer connection? I know you can buy 1 Gb connections for $500/m at some datacenters.
  - sitepodmatt 8y ago
    Plus the rack at one of the supported colo neutral of the peering exchange say $800mo usually an equinix or telehouss,plus the cross connect $300mo, plus redudant protected circuits to your data center from the incumbents, plus juniper/Cisco/arista 100gb gear, HA/failover double the prior, plus your onsite hands or remote hands, plus the SFPs and sparwa, plus insurance plus all sorts of shit just for a NAP - presuming you don't have one already at said location. There a lot more to costs than pricelist for LINx, or Deix or whatever advertise. this a great announcement from cloudflare
    - patrickg_zill 8y ago