AWS's Egregious Egress (blog.cloudflare.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2021 | 742 points by jgrahamc | cloud & devops | original thread |
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kyrra Dec 26, 2021 | on: The cost of cloud | context

For those that didn't read it, I recommend the thread on bandwidth costs from 5 month ago this article links to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930151

kristjansson Sep 19, 2021 | on: Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] | context

AWS {in,e}gress pricing strategy is not motivated by their cost of provisioning that service. Cloudflare had a good (if self-motivated) analysis of their cost structure discussed on here a while ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930151

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1. Less is exponentially more (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2012 | 235 points by enneff | original thread |
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