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1.2 EB is 1.288e9 GB. The lowest listed price for cross-region traffic at Google is 0.2c / GB. That’s almost $2.6M per day to run this program — actually, mor
by amluto 2y ago
1.2 EB is 1.288e9 GB. The lowest listed price for cross-region traffic at Google is 0.2c / GB. That’s almost $2.6M per day to run this program — actually, more, because a bunch of the traffic surely goes outside North America! Google can afford that, but most companies can’t.
I’m being sarcastic, if this wasn’t obvious.
- remram 2y ago1.2 EB is 1.2e9 GB
- amluto 2y agoI was assuming that these were actually EiB and GiB. The egress prices are documented as such, and networking is usually counted in powers of 1024.
- remram 2y agoI mean, possibly. Networking is usually counted in bits though. I wish there was a way to signify "I know about EiB I do mean EB". If you write EiB, there is no chance you meant EB, but the other way around is always ambiguous...
- pxx 2y agoI spell out "trillion / quadrillion / quintillion bytes" for base-10 terabyte, petabyte, exabyte when the distinction is important. they're also unlikely to be confused with long-scale.
- amluto 2y agoEvery Google investor should care deeply about that factor of 1.024^3 when evaluating the cost of running this amazing money sink. Oh wait, maybe the endpoints are in the special list of Google endpoints to which traffic is zero rated. :)