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Cloud bandwidth is cheap if you commit to spending a certain amount per month. Our bandwidth is less than .001/GB with like a $1500 monthly commitment in AWS.
by mannyv 3y ago
Cloud bandwidth is cheap if you commit to spending a certain amount per month.
Our bandwidth is less than .001/GB with like a $1500 monthly commitment in AWS. Fastly was even cheaper (which is why we're using fastly).
Call you AM and talk. It's not hard, and it'll save you a ton of money.
- kiwijamo 3y agoIs that something generally avaliable to customers? I've done some searches and can't find anything other than savings plans for EC2 etc.
- mannyv 3y agoOn AWS you have to call and ask them. We got quotes from AWS, Fastly, and Akamai. All of them are substantially cheaper than the public rates.
- dilyevsky 3y agoWe had a commit that was like three orders of magnitude more and our price was 1-2c for cdn and 2c for tier1 cloud (but only “partner” networks, the rest was list). That was after us threatening to leave (and having capability to do so). So either you are mistaken or your am really really likes you.
- mannyv 3y agoNo, it's your people suck at negotiating. Again, we got quotes from Fastly, Akamai, and AWS. Our commit is/was $1500/month (we're on fastly now). Fastly gave us like 6 month free to switch, both bandwidth and requests.
- hansvm 3y agoYou mean, cloud bandwidth is cheap if you don't use much bandwidth. That's still an order of magnitude or two worse than the backbone cost.