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Apparently we are overpaying Bezos for our bandwidth and storage costs, as well! Just went hunting for a better price on bandwidth the other day and was blown
by johnnyApplePRNG 5y ago
Apparently we are overpaying Bezos for our bandwidth and storage costs, as well!
Just went hunting for a better price on bandwidth the other day and was blown away by what hetzner cloud has to offer. (20TB free bandwidth per month, with an extra TB charged at 1.19 EUR ($1.38 USD) or $0.00138/GB.
AWS charges $0.05/GB ... How/why is AWS >32x more expensive?
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- dilyevsky 5y agoThe aws and other cloud vendors markup on bandwidth is probably at least 50x. It is their moat. If they lower it their big spenders like snowflake will leave for their own datacenters
- johnnyApplePRNG 5y agoI don't get it. How is a huge markup on a commodity product their "moat" or protection against clients leaving? I am one of their clients and I am leaving due to it.
- fmajid 5y agoOnce you are in the roach motel the path of least resistance is to buy other services from AWS rather than the competitors because of the egress charges. It is completely anticompetitive and I expect even the toothless US antitrust authorities will crack down on that.
- chmod775 5y agoThat Hetzner offer is like 5 years old now. If you buy one of their recent offerings, bandwidth is unmetered now. You can easily send around 150TB/month at no extra cost with their offers. OVH can get you unmetered servers with 1-3gbit/s for 100-400 USD/month as well. That's around 500TB/month after accounting for how much you actually get. Online.net is similarly priced. The list goes on.
- johnnyApplePRNG 5y agoIt's unmetered for dedicated, pay as you go for cloud iirc.