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One of downsides of AWS is the bandwidth cost. It's 5x to 10x more expensive. Running heavy media based websites is just not feasible.
by ww520 13y ago
One of downsides of AWS is the bandwidth cost. It's 5x to 10x more expensive. Running heavy media based websites is just not feasible.
- tyw 13y agoyou wouldn't want to do this straight out of EC2, but once you add S3=>CloudFront to the mix it's much less bad. Only thing you want to be serving from your EC2 boxes and load balancer is gzipped HTML/CSS/JS (could even do CSS/JS on S3/CF if you wanted).
- ww520 13y agoDoesn't CloudFront have the same outgoing bandwidth charge? $0.12/GB? CloudFront does have caching and lessen load on EC2 boxes.
- SudoAlex 13y agoThis is one of the things which annoys me about AWS, and certain other providers which do a per GB cost on outgoing bandwidth. We get around 50TB of data transfer per month from Linode, from having around $500/month worth of servers. The cost of using this much data with EC2 - around $5400 a month. It's not even close to being competitive. I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more often.