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Honest question, how is this different than a toll road? An entity creates a road network with a certain size (lanes, capacity/hour, literal traffic) and pays f
by pests 3y ago
Honest question, how is this different than a toll road? An entity creates a road network with a certain size (lanes, capacity/hour, literal traffic) and pays for it by charging individual cars put through the road.
- dekhn 3y agoOr, really, any capital intensive business that makes money through operating costs based on usage rather than total capacity.
- _w1tm 3y agoThe difference is that Amazon doesn’t own the road, they’re just a truck driver. Amazon customers rent space on the truck and pay whatever the driver asks them for.
- corbezzoli 3y agoYeah ok but you still need a ticket to board the truck/bus, right? The more people in your family, the more tickets. The issue isn’t charging for egress, but charging excessively.
- kenmacd 3y agoThere's at least a couple of reasons that your analogy doesn't really work. First a lot of these roads are 'free' and yet you're still being charged for it. If two large networks come to an agreement then they connect the two networks (ie build that road), but no money changes hands. Second if there is a paid peering agreement in place (ie say AWS had a cost to push your data out), that still wouldn't be billed to them in the way they're charging you. Instead they'd be paying for the rate of traffic at something like the 95th percentile of the max. This means that you could download a petabyte of data from them when the pipe isn't busy and cost them nothing, or you could download a gigabyte when it's busy and push up the costs.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThe toll road is the only way out of the county and it's charging $90. That's what's different.