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> cheap internal bandwidth This is vendor lockin that AWS put you in and now you mention like it's a pro.

• beagle3 6y ago
  It’s network effect, not vendor lock-in. If you are doing B2B, chances are good your peers are also in AWS, regardless of the lock-in effects of other Amazon services (which are real, and like any lock-in are always negative). I am old enough to have collocates at Exodus in 2000 for the exact same reason: everyone I needed to work with collocates with them. (The later went bankrupt and became Savvis, no idea what they are called today or if they still exist)
  • Dylan16807 6y ago
    Even if 90% of your peers are in Amazon, the egress fees on the other 10% cost more than sending all of your data over a competitively priced network connection. And that's the best case, where all your connections to them start and end in the same availability zone. Just inter-AZ fees cost more than you'd normally pay for transit. It's almost entirely lock-in.
  • fomine3 6y ago
    network effect, literally.