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> Some cloud providers charge a round zero for intra-region traffic That's likely a selling point to attract people to the competition. "Look, our bandwidth is
by tuetuopay 4y ago
> Some cloud providers charge a round zero for intra-region traffic
That's likely a selling point to attract people to the competition. "Look, our bandwidth is free!"
Also there is quite a lot of cost for internal, inter-zone, traffic. You need all the routing equipment and the fiber links for that. And such traffic does not go through the same links as the public one, because you'd be paying the cost of public bandwidth trough transits or peerings. You want your own backbone, but this has a cost that needs to be amortized. Furthermore, properly designing such a network has a cost in engineers.
- lozenge 4y agoWhat's the cost of not having routing equipment and a backbone? At that point they would just be two separate regions which are too geographically close to actually offer redundancy.
- eropple 4y agoIt's not just a selling point, it's a reflection on how providers see customers. I've been struck when using other platforms (OCI, some PaaSes) that it feels a lot more like a partnership, where everybody makes money when I succeed, than a short-horizon extraction machine. And sure, maybe they'd change their minds in AWS's position...but they're not, and maybe nobody should be allowed to be as big as AWS? OCI also doesn't charge for NAT gateways, which makes sense because it's a configuration in a router that already exists and is already doing things. AWS, on the other hand, brings out the knives for you.
- js4ever 4y agoDo you think OCI would keep that pricing if they where the leader? Just check Oracle history for milking customers
- eropple 4y agoWhat does that have to do with literally anything, except excusing anticompetitive and extractive behavior because somebody else might hypothetically do it? They aren't and so they can't. AWS can and should be prevented from doing so.
- simplotek 4y ago> That's likely a selling point to attract people to the competition. "Look, our bandwidth is free!" But bandwidth is free in intra-node traffic, isn't it? I mean, in some scenarios this traffic doesn't even leave the server. What does localhost traffic cost you?
- bauruine 4y agoA single 800Gbit/s port can do 259200000 GB a month. That's 5'184'000$ a month. Their traffic prices are ridiculous and there is no excuse for it.
- piyh 4y agoYou're not buying the gigabytes, you're buying the systems engineering that carries those gigabytes.