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They 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 egre
by cortesoft 6y ago
They 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...