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Storage is $15/TB/Month. Commodity hard drives currently go for around $17/TB. Considering data is replicated across several hard drives, servers and electrici
by hamandcheese 4y ago
Storage is $15/TB/Month. Commodity hard drives currently go for around $17/TB.
Considering data is replicated across several hard drives, servers and electricity aren’t free, etc. I would guess that Cloudflare won’t break even on storage until several months of utilization (unlike Amazon who probably breaks even on day 1).
- lnsp 4y agoI guess in the long term the product will at least pay for itself, in the short term it will just be a marketing campaign and gives people a good reason to switch from their Amazon stack in case they don't depend on things like EC2-S3 transfers. When comparing to Backblaze B2 [1], Cloudflare's storage cost is 3x but you don't pay for egress as a tradeoff (compared to 0.01$/GB for Backblaze). [1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
- zigzag312 4y agoYou are comparing monthly price with lifetime price.
- CodesInChaos 4y agoThat makes sense since they're calculating the time it takes to amortize the hardware purchase.