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Any AWS product at scale gets real expensive real quick. A general rule of thumb is CloudFront is $2500/mo for every 100 Mbps of traffic you have, not counting
by mike_d 5y ago
Any AWS product at scale gets real expensive real quick.
A general rule of thumb is CloudFront is $2500/mo for every 100 Mbps of traffic you have, not counting origin or per request fees.
I would expect they are pushing multiple Gbps with every household in the US trying to order tests.
- Tempest1981 5y agoCan you re-state the cost in terms of F-35 fighter jets?
- throwanem 5y agoAbout 3.1 Tbps per aircraft, if we generously assume the $78M flyaway cost is accurate.
- daveevad 5y agoI had missed the CloudFront part, once I saw Akamai my mind must have skipped it.
- count 5y agoThey're probably not pushing even hundreds of Mbps - it's a 2MB site in total, and almost all of it is static, and will be cached by various proxies/etc. They might PEAK at a Gbps for the first few hours, and then fall off to a long tail of basically nothing. It's just not big - no serious images, no video, etc. And it's US only, not global. And most people will only hit the site one time, order and it's done. And even so, $2500/mo is 'free': just the paperwork to put the money on contract to the provider probably costs more than that by an order of magnitude.