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AWS cross-AZ data transfer costs more than they tell you
- QuinnyPig 7y agoThe short version: cross-region and cross-AZ data transfer costs the same.
- nonfamous 7y agoCharging for the sending and the receiving of the same data within a region, huh?
- CaliforniaKarl 7y agoThinking on it, that doesn’t surprise me as much as I’d expect. My understanding is that different AZs within a region are physically implemented as different buildings, which are some distance apart. So you’d need the same type of network hardware for the inter-AZ links as you’d need for inter-Region links.
- pests 7y agoBut then traveling over their dedicated lines when using cross AZ might bring additional considerations than leaving their network and being exposed to internet routing.
- Elect2 7y agoThis pricing only seems make sense when the two instances are belong to different owners that are billed $0.01/GB both. But still ridiculous: Data transfer in from internet is free, but from another zones/regions cost $0.01. Maybe they just want to make the pricing "look cheaper"?
- deepsun 7y agoWhat about GCS? They say cross-AZ is free, and cross-region is the same 10c/GB. Is it really so, or like with AWS?
- ironfootnz 7y agoAWS Calculator only works for infra structure. People still forgets about indirect charges. Believe me, they're making a killing $$$ there. A survival tip if you have 10TB of data to replicate across regions. Share via VPC across replications(you will increase latency a bit but saves around $10.00 every sync. In case you do this every hour, it's like saving the price of an car. Images? Share via VPC. Don't use any managed service.
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoCan you elaborate a bit more. Are you referring to SaaS services they offer like S3? EG: Host your own filestore on IaaS components only?
- rbdeveloper 7y agoThat is ridiculous. Does anyone know if that's the case with GCP / Azure too?