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> why am I paying for bandwidth on AWS? Because when you signed up for services on AWS, you agreed to pay for egress and ingress bandwidth delivered at very hi
by mdip 5y ago
> why am I paying for bandwidth on AWS?
Because when you signed up for services on AWS, you agreed to pay for egress and ingress bandwidth delivered at very high speeds.
When I signed up for my ISP, I agreed to pay for a rate of speed that was sold to me as "unlimited" with some restrictions, but none that even came close to resembling "don't download video too much".
It also ignores the value Netflix provides. My parents chose to buy faster internet service than they otherwise would have purchased because of Netflix. If Netflix was not in the picture, they would have purchased the cheapest plan available. It's not a fairness failure, it's a marketing failure.