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Did they finally realize how AWS/Azure/Gcloud actually generate their exorbitant profit margins?
by Slartie 2y ago
Did they finally realize how AWS/Azure/Gcloud actually generate their exorbitant profit margins?
- stavros 2y agoNo, they realized that nobody switches away from AWS because of their expensive bandwidth.
- acdha 2y agoAWS negotiates on bandwidth, too, so I imagine the actual savings would be a lot smaller for most customers unless you have some business which is heavily dominated by egress pricing.
- cuuupid 2y agoBingo, lots of people are loud about this online and many influencers screaming about this on Twitter, so it’s easy to conflate that as a pressing issue. Ultimately a thousand indie devs mad about bandwidth extortion are still making up less than 1% of a serious company’s revenue for AWS. I’ve liked using Hetzner before and I’m curious how they’ll go after the market now. This is probably the wrong move though; Cloudflare realized this same fact some time ago but they kept their prices low to avoid cultivating ill will.
- high_na_euv 2y agoWhat do you mean? News Hacker isnt representative sample that also understands the insustry and the business?
- TeMPOraL 2y ago> lots of people are loud about this online and many influencers screaming about this on Twitter, so it’s easy to conflate that as a pressing issue. Ultimately a thousand indie devs mad about bandwidth extortion are still making up less than 1% of a serious company’s revenue for AWS. So basically, by getting worked up publicly about this, those people provide free marketing for Hetzner?
- ghaff 2y agoThere probably are a number of things about AWS (see also no hard price caps) that people on forums froth at the mouth about but which most customers AWS actually cares about are largely indifferent about.
- Aeolun 2y agoCan confirm that the enterprise I work for does not care one whit about the odd $5k mistake. It's all a drop in a bucket anyway.