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On the whole analogy of R2 circling S3 as a go metaphor - what happens if AWS were to simply nix egress costs? I wish Cloudflare all the success, but I don't k
by ryanisnan 5y ago
On the whole analogy of R2 circling S3 as a go metaphor - what happens if AWS were to simply nix egress costs?
I wish Cloudflare all the success, but I don't know if they have a substantive moat here.
- pas 5y agoThen everyone who had to run in AWS now has the option to think about running outside. Which establishes a new market sector and puts enormous (?) downward pressure on the price of some internal services. Cloudflare is not worried about this, they want that, because it would open market access to a lot of juicy potential clients, who are already cloud ready but AWS locked in. Plus they have this shot, they try to make this count, to get traction. If AWS moves now it'll be attributed to them. At that point they win by default. (At least that's the theory :))
- Rapzid 5y agoDo a lot of people "run" on S3? I'm guess that sort of thin lock-in is perhaps a tiny portion of S3 and AWSs utility billing revenue? Even so, dropping egress fees if they see substantial migration could completely change the calculus on the switching costs for users.
- pas 5y agoEvery data processing workload is basically S3 based. Hadoop in the cloud is nothing more than X on HDFS on S3. But egress fees apply for everything, not just S3. Currently cross-cloud or multi-cloud orchestration and/or scheduling makes no sense, because egress fees just make it uneconomical (in most cases). The lower the fee gets the better the numbers will look like for mixing and marching services from providers.