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AWS, may be, subsidizes the costs of its loss-leaders by (what seems like) charging disproportionately for egress. I reckon, as Cloudflare gears up to take on i
by ignoramous 5y ago
AWS, may be, subsidizes the costs of its loss-leaders by (what seems like) charging disproportionately for egress. I reckon, as Cloudflare gears up to take on incumbent cloud leaders, it modus operandi will be to commoditize its competitor's advantages.
Apart from CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, Cloudflare has offerings that compete with Lambda (Workers Unlimited), Web Application Firewall, AWS Elemental (Stream), and (app/network) load balancers (Argo, Spectrum, Magic Transit). Check out Cloudflare's bandwidth / usage pricing for some of those, and it isn't much different than AWS.
Cloudflare, I'd predict, will eventually arrive at a similar pricing model for its IaaS outside of the Bandwidth Alliance (which, ironically, is Hotel California with select though multiple providers at play).
- rad_gruchalski 5y ago> Apart from CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, Cloudflare has offerings that compete with Lambda (Workers Unlimited) Oh yeah, and it comes with a KV store capable of storing data across requests. It's awesome.
- rhizome 5y agoJust like all the AWS resellers: cheap to launch, expensive to succeed. :)
- ec109685 5y agoI don’t think so. None of AWS services seem abnormally cheap. Do you have an example where it seems like they are selling a service at a loss?
- ignoramous 5y agoI don't know for sure if they sell services at a loss, but they give away some glue infrastructure at no cost to the customer. AWS Batch, AWS Lake Formation, EC2 Auto-Scaling, Data Migration Service (free for 6 months, no-limits), AWS CodeStar, AWS BeanStalk as few examples. I believe, in almost all cases (save traffic over transits like cross-account VPCs, load-balancers, internet-gateways, NATs, etc), intra-region transfers are also free. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22There+is+no+additional+charge+for%22+inurl%3Aaws.amazon.com https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22There+is+no+additional+charge+f...
- aureli01 5y agotill now any service I can remember "at no cost" is linked with resources that create a recurrent/fix payment. So it is just the easy (and nice) way to get customers.
- antb123 5y agoAnd they do the same with some of their VPN/firewall products which are totally over priced except compared with self hosted products