3 ms·
Wouldn't a company that is such a significant user (by volume) have already negotiated a rate of their own? It would seem silly to be in the 1+ PB range and pay
by bconway 16y ago
Wouldn't a company that is such a significant user (by volume) have already negotiated a rate of their own? It would seem silly to be in the 1+ PB range and paying the going market rate.
- cperciva 16y agoI would guess that the point of Amazon's pricing tiers is so they can say "look, you've already getting a discounted rate" and not waste time negotiating with each customer separately.
- jnoller 16y agoActually, I'm pretty sure they do offer custom pricing to some customers, but I've never heard any details.
- d2viant 16y agoI would guess they do to. Netflix recently moved to the AWS infrastructure for their streaming and it was recently revealed that Netflix accounts for 20 percent of all internet traffic during peak times. I highly doubt Amazon simply said "go read our webpage" in a situation like this.
- andrewvc 16y agoThey have to. I've never negotiated w/ amazon, but their list bandwidth prices were 3 - 4 times more expensive than what i got negotiating with CDNs and carriers directly. That's to say nothing about cogent, who will sell you bandwidth at $4/mbps, AWS's cheapest pricing (at 150tb/mo) still comes out to $28/mbps, which is a joke.