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I'm waiting for the day they announce bandwidth price cuts

doctorfoo 6y ago
this. the only way I can make profit with my web service is by using a third party low budget CDN as a caching layer. Even with that, S3 data transfer remains my biggest cost. if I could spare the time, I'd make a custom caching layer so that S3 is never hit at all except for upload, and is used only for disaster recovery.
- User23 6y ago
  Sounds like you just had a million dollar idea. Why not build it out and offer it to the many many other people in your position?
  - adtac 6y ago
    You don't need to be a plumber to spot a leaky pipe
  - doctorfoo 6y ago
    unfortunately my current and income-giving project takes priority. but if someone else makes it, I'll use it for sure.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Backblaze B2 is what you’re looking for.
  - doctorfoo 6y ago
    those prices are certainly nicer!
  - ptman 6y ago
    And they are in the bandwidth alliance with cloudflare
- johntash 6y ago
  I haven't done the math, but depending on your bandwidth requirements - you could try spinning up a couple vms at DigitalOcean/Linode/somewhere with bundled bandwidth, and then just run nginx as a cache with s3 as the backend.
jread 6y ago
AWS Lightsail is a possible workaround for bandwidth heavy simple workloads. The smallest $3.50/mo instance (t2.nano behind the scenes), comes with 1TB outbound bandwidth - equivalent of about $90 for the same in EC2 excluding the instance cost, and bundled bandwidth increases for larger types.
- klohto 6y ago
  I wouldn’t risk AWS closing the account. It should work, but don’t know how would AWS view it. "You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public Internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing Services as described in the Documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account."
  - yencabulator 6y ago
    That reads to me like an admission that they know their normal bandwidth charges are ridiculous.

this. the only way I can make profit with my web service is by using a third party low budget CDN as a caching layer. Even with that, S3 data transfer remains my biggest cost. if I could spare the time, I'd make a custom caching layer so that S3 is never hit at all except for upload, and is used only for disaster recovery.

User23 6y ago
Sounds like you just had a million dollar idea. Why not build it out and offer it to the many many other people in your position?
- adtac 6y ago
  You don't need to be a plumber to spot a leaky pipe
- doctorfoo 6y ago
  unfortunately my current and income-giving project takes priority. but if someone else makes it, I'll use it for sure.
toomuchtodo 6y ago
Backblaze B2 is what you’re looking for.
- doctorfoo 6y ago
  those prices are certainly nicer!
- ptman 6y ago
  And they are in the bandwidth alliance with cloudflare
johntash 6y ago
I haven't done the math, but depending on your bandwidth requirements - you could try spinning up a couple vms at DigitalOcean/Linode/somewhere with bundled bandwidth, and then just run nginx as a cache with s3 as the backend.

jread 6y ago

AWS Lightsail is a possible workaround for bandwidth heavy simple workloads. The smallest $3.50/mo instance (t2.nano behind the scenes), comes with 1TB outbound bandwidth - equivalent of about $90 for the same in EC2 excluding the instance cost, and bundled bandwidth increases for larger types.

klohto 6y ago
I wouldn’t risk AWS closing the account. It should work, but don’t know how would AWS view it. "You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public Internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing Services as described in the Documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account."
- yencabulator 6y ago
  That reads to me like an admission that they know their normal bandwidth charges are ridiculous.