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AWS egress charges blatantly take advantage of people who have never bought transit or done peering. To them "that's just what bandwidth costs" but anyone who'
by kkielhofner 3y ago
AWS egress charges blatantly take advantage of people who have never bought transit or done peering.
To them "that's just what bandwidth costs" but anyone who's worked with this stuff (sounds like you and I both) can do the quick math and see what kind of money printing machine this scheme is.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIt's also a way to choose your customers. Some people want to host a lot of warez and pirate movies and stuff but that doesn't monetize very well per GB consumed so pricing bandwidth high means those people never show up, thus saving a lot of trouble for AWS. I remember when salesforce.com announced a service that would let you serve up web pages out of their database, it was priced crazy high (100-1000x too much) from the viewpoint of "I want to run a blog on this service" but for someone who wanted to put in a form to collect data from customers it was totally affordable. Salesforce knew which customers it wanted and priced accordingly.