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| “At AWS, the bandwidth is the soda.” (comment) | ||
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| kyledrake on Aug 11, 2016 | on: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Update | view on HN | ||
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tshtf Oct 3, 2016 | on: New lower Azure pricing | context
As kyledrake so eloquently said before: "The bandwidth is the soda." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270129 AWS and Azure overcharge on bandwidth about 10 to 20 times the prevailing rate. Something to keep in mind for high bandwidth applications. |
I knew a guy that ran a Subway sandwich store. He told me that they make their profit margin on the soda.
At AWS, the bandwidth is the soda. They mark it up 18x over market rate. The more successful you are, the more you pay for it.
That's their business model. They trap you into "cheap prices", and then hit you over the head for the rest of your life with bandwidth costs. They know that it's too hard to leave, so you won't do it.
I can get bandwidth on the market for about $0.013-$0.005 cents per gigabyte. Think about that. That's how much more expensive these cloud services are on BW costs.