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Bandwidth is expensive, storage is cheap.
by qvrjuec 7y ago
Bandwidth is expensive, storage is cheap.
- asdfman123 7y agoAmazon Snowball, if I understand it correctly, is a box full of hard drives that they mail you to transfer data. So no bandwidth there. It still costs $0.03/GB, which is on top of the $200 they charge you to use the service.
- throwaway2048 7y agocloud providers charge a lot more for bandwidth yes, but in reality bandwidth is much, much cheaper than storage for them to provide.
- dx034 7y agoNot with smaller cloud providers or colocation centers.