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They over charge. Their cost is less than .01 cents per gb and look at their published pricing for customers. And I’m including networking equipment as well a
by raiyu 6y ago
They over charge.
Their cost is less than .01 cents per gb and look at their published pricing for customers.
And I’m including networking equipment as well as head count in my cost, not just the cost of pipes.
- cortesoft 6y agoThey charge so much for it as a disincentive to use it for CDN purposes. It is not architected to act as a CDN for people, and if they don't overcharge for egress, people will use it as a CDN because it is easy.
- acdha 6y agoIn that case, why isn’t EC2 egresa pricing more competitive with other services?
- cortesoft 6y agoSame reason?
- acdha 6y agoIt's dubious that they don't want you using S3 for one of the advertised use-cases but even if we accept that, the logic wouldn't apply to EC2 since there's even less of a chance of that impacting other users. Building your own CDN on EC2 isn't going to produce a different workload than many other activities which are actively encouraged.
- fxtentacle 6y agoProbably not. They have a tutorial on how to host static data with S3, so it appears to be an intended use of the service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosti...