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That seems impossible to determine. AWS retail charges for things that have an impossible relation to actual costs (think traffic) to begin with.
by stefan_ 3y ago
That seems impossible to determine. AWS retail charges for things that have an impossible relation to actual costs (think traffic) to begin with.
- jedberg 3y agoAWS knows how much it costs to deliver their own service. How do you think they determine their own profits and prices? They use those same calculations to bill internal customers.
- wongarsu 3y agoObviously AWS knows how much it costs to run all of AWS. But that doesn't translate to accurately knowing the marginal costs of a gigabyte of outbound traffic. They probably do know, but it isn't necessary at all to determine their profit, or to set their prices. "Just" set prices to what the market is willing to pay, and determine profit as total income minus total expenses over the whole operation.