3 ms·

AWS's bandwidth charges are highway robbery. It's my impression that AWS competes with the EC2 instance cost (as it that's what new customers look at), and the

AWS's bandwidth charges are highway robbery. It's my impression that AWS competes with the EC2 instance cost (as it that's what new customers look at), and the bandwidth/storage only becomes apparent when you are locked in. Really what AWS should be is one or two phases of service maturity: dev infrastructure and experimentation is phase one, phase two would be the "its a couple servers" production, BUT: with a scale plan for phase 3 being not-AWS. Having a mature/battle tested phase 2 --> phase 3 should be a market advantage in the modern business landscape, but that's also a post-acquisition/exit phase, so none of the presumed target HN crowd care about it. There are extensive articles and public knowledgebases on various technologies and architectures, but there is effectively nothing on AWS independence out there, even though almost every mature organization will need to face it.

hotpotamus 4y ago
I'm also a bit blown away that anyone is surprised that AWS is expensive. Sure you can express a lot of the costs in small numbers per hour or $0.08 per gigabyte of bandwidth, but those things all add up quickly at scale. I assumed phase 3 was where AWS started giving you massive discounts because you represent so much business for them, but I've never been at a place big enough to swing that stick at them.
- tablespoon 4y ago
  > I'm also a bit blown away that anyone is surprised that AWS is expensive. Sure you can express a lot of the costs in small numbers per hour or $0.08 per gigabyte of bandwidth, but those things all add up quickly at scale. Could it be magical thinking based on marketing hype and autoscaling fantasies?
- AtlasBarfed 4y ago
  I have, but the technical service still sucks even at "20-30% discount" tier. I think you should have multicloud strategy just to improve your bargaining position. They know when you're locked in.

hotpotamus 4y ago

I'm also a bit blown away that anyone is surprised that AWS is expensive. Sure you can express a lot of the costs in small numbers per hour or $0.08 per gigabyte of bandwidth, but those things all add up quickly at scale. I assumed phase 3 was where AWS started giving you massive discounts because you represent so much business for them, but I've never been at a place big enough to swing that stick at them.

tablespoon 4y ago
> I'm also a bit blown away that anyone is surprised that AWS is expensive. Sure you can express a lot of the costs in small numbers per hour or $0.08 per gigabyte of bandwidth, but those things all add up quickly at scale. Could it be magical thinking based on marketing hype and autoscaling fantasies?
AtlasBarfed 4y ago
I have, but the technical service still sucks even at "20-30% discount" tier. I think you should have multicloud strategy just to improve your bargaining position. They know when you're locked in.