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Reads like CF has a bone to pick with AWS. Are they mad about AWS not in the peering group? Is the AWS price really out of line - the comparison to wholesale co
by edoceo 5y ago
Reads like CF has a bone to pick with AWS. Are they mad about AWS not in the peering group? Is the AWS price really out of line - the comparison to wholesale cost only seems to miss a lot of infrastructure that gets baked into the final retail prices - it's not simply (Retail-Wholesale=7000% margin).
Feels like a weak "hit piece" to me.
- notsureaboutpg 5y agoCloudflare is ramping up it's enterprise sales and deals (and doing a good job of it too, anecdotally). So they are competing more and more with AWS (their Workers product is a good example), and why not point out things people dislike about their competitors?
- Daishiman 5y agoI think it's quite fair. You're not paying anywhere near close to the price of the infra with AWS; you're paying for the convenience, but be mindful that the cost has a break-even point and many companies may be beyond that point. I don't have the experience to assess whether the total cost of ownership is favorable to most AWS clients or not.
- pkilgore 5y agoThey directly address these costs in the article as "rounding error". Do you have some evidence to dispute that? Did I misunderstand them?
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoThey are in the market for reducing that bandwidth by caching stuff at CloudFlare, so it's not exactly surprising.