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Well if that isn't a direct answer to https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/ ...

jgrahamc 5y ago
:thinking face
- mh- 5y ago
  Lol, thanks on behalf of everyone enjoying the AWS free tier, jgc.
shepherdjerred 5y ago
AWS giving you 95GB egress for free is not at all a direct answer to the insane prices
- Hamuko 5y ago
  Just because it isn't as good doesn't mean it's not a direct answer. This is basically the lowest hanging fruit response AWS can give against Cloudflare to convince people not to migrate over. Maybe the idea is that if you're doing 1+ TB of CloudFront traffic, you're already deeply locked into AWS anyways and less willing to make the jump anyways.
  - shepherdjerred 5y ago
    1GB of egress costs about 9 cents. The cost savings is equivalent to ~$9/mo in standard US regions. Nobody is going to migrate clouds over a $9/mo saving. If we're talking about CloudFront that comes out to $85. That's actually a pretty good savings, but it's distinct from egress. CloudFront's pricing isn't locking customers in due to egress pricing because it's a CDN, not a data storage service.
tyingq 5y ago
A partial direct answer that's still less free egress than almost every other free tier and/or sub $5/VPS. And as far as I can tell, the egregious pricing is still there once you're past the free limit.
Guest19023892 5y ago
I use 500GB - 1TB per month on Cloudfront, costing about $50-100 per month, and I was going to move this over to Cloudflare to take advantage of their savings. However, this AWS change will basically wipe out my entire Cloudfront bill. I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks.
- tyingq 5y ago
  It leaves you pretty close to the edge of paying 8.5+ cents/GB when you go over though.
orasis 5y ago
My thought as well. I was just about to spin up a new service on cloudflare and now I’ll stick with AWS.

jgrahamc 5y ago

:thinking face

mh- 5y ago
Lol, thanks on behalf of everyone enjoying the AWS free tier, jgc.

shepherdjerred 5y ago

AWS giving you 95GB egress for free is not at all a direct answer to the insane prices

Hamuko 5y ago
Just because it isn't as good doesn't mean it's not a direct answer. This is basically the lowest hanging fruit response AWS can give against Cloudflare to convince people not to migrate over. Maybe the idea is that if you're doing 1+ TB of CloudFront traffic, you're already deeply locked into AWS anyways and less willing to make the jump anyways.
- shepherdjerred 5y ago
  1GB of egress costs about 9 cents. The cost savings is equivalent to ~$9/mo in standard US regions. Nobody is going to migrate clouds over a $9/mo saving. If we're talking about CloudFront that comes out to $85. That's actually a pretty good savings, but it's distinct from egress. CloudFront's pricing isn't locking customers in due to egress pricing because it's a CDN, not a data storage service.

tyingq 5y ago

A partial direct answer that's still less free egress than almost every other free tier and/or sub $5/VPS. And as far as I can tell, the egregious pricing is still there once you're past the free limit.

Guest19023892 5y ago

I use 500GB - 1TB per month on Cloudfront, costing about $50-100 per month, and I was going to move this over to Cloudflare to take advantage of their savings. However, this AWS change will basically wipe out my entire Cloudfront bill. I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks.

tyingq 5y ago
It leaves you pretty close to the edge of paying 8.5+ cents/GB when you go over though.

orasis 5y ago

My thought as well. I was just about to spin up a new service on cloudflare and now I’ll stick with AWS.