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Cloudflare argo pricing (basically stay on the CF network) is almost identical to GCP Premium Tier and AWS default tier. They claim it does some cool optimizati
by yepcfstyle 5y ago
Cloudflare argo pricing (basically stay on the CF network) is almost identical to GCP Premium Tier and AWS default tier. They claim it does some cool optimizations to traffic path, no different to BGP optimizers - it is simply ridiculous to presume GCP/AWS doesnt optimize their routes too on a continous basis - yet apples and oranges doesn't apply CF says. I applaud CF nudging AWS to reduce bandwidth fees and things like bandwidth alliance but they sure do a hold my beer on hypocrisy.
- MrStonedOne 5y agoand what doesn't make sense about that, is in some respects argo reduces load on their network, because your origin makes a single outgoing connection to cf, that is then used to route traffic to you, reducing the effect of 3-6 packet tcp/tls connection start.
- yepcfstyle 5y agoThat's technically Argo Tunnel tbf - their naming is worse than Google's, CF pushes pure Argo as better path from CF ingestion point to origin server because it now goes CF ingestion -> CF network -> Nearest CF network pop to origin -> origin, they claim non Argo is usually CF ingestion -> transit all the way -> origin which is probably more expensive for them too.