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a 49 mb video watched a million times is 49 tb bandwidth. 1 tb bandwidth cost of aws is 236 usd a month.
by codegladiator 7y ago
a 49 mb video watched a million times is 49 tb bandwidth.
1 tb bandwidth cost of aws is 236 usd a month.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoI don't think that's quite right. 1TB/mo of CloudFront bandwidth is $90/mo (per [1]). Also, that's the on-demand price. The price with volume discounts is much lower. [1]: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#s=CloudFront&key=files/calc-211d62e4e5e937ad6f991d2a82acc72a776b3e0f&v=ver20191121vC https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#s=CloudFront&...
- codegladiator 7y agoI guess sure even with your calculation that is still a considerable expense while on youtube the user might be getting some money for their video
- zaroth 7y agoA 10Gbit connection at HE is going to cost you roughly $2,000/month, or about $65/day. That will serve your 49MB video roughly 2 million times a day. Let’s go with 50% average utilization, and say that means we need to monetize roughly 0.0065 cents per view to cover the bandwidth cost. I think YouTube charges something like 10 cents per ad view, but won’t charge if the user clicks Skip in that 5 second window. I’m not sure what percent of views result in a billable ad, but anecdotally I’ve heard it’s surprisingly high. I would assume storage is a much bigger cost factor, to say nothing of paying the engineers to develop and support the infrastructure.