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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by patrickg_zill on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:35PM (#13557710)
I was just offered 1 gigabit unmetered for $500/month in the Denver colo I run my servers in. I have to be sure, that Google gets their bandwidth for far, far less!

Which means, 50 cents per Mbps/per month. Usually a 1Mbps means about 190GB of transfer over the course of a month, I think. So 1000 * 190GB = 0.190 PB per month.

412PB thus means ~ 2200 Gbit/s . Under my pricing, I get a whole lot less than $33M / month.

So, does your calculation involve storing that same 412PB?

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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by 010a on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:34AM (#13557940)
No. In what world would Snapchat be paying the rates that you pay at your Denver colo center? Why is that even relevant? They pay what Google charges them, which is $0.08/GB egress. Probably less due to negotiated bulk discounts.
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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by patrickg_zill on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:37AM (#13557956)
8 cents per GB is thus approximately $15 per Mbps (8 cents time 190)that Snap is paying, while Google is paying far less than 50 cents per Mbps.

Is my math off?

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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by late2part on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:20AM (#13558126)
Your units are off.

If I push 1 GB per month, https://www.google.com/search?q=1GB%2Fmonth+in+mbps&oq=1GB%2...

You can assume they are not paying list rate when they buy $400M of service.

If they push ~40gbps on average, that's 13PB - https://www.google.com/search?q=40gbps+*+30+days+in+PB&oq=40...

13PB is 13M GB. 13M GB @ .08/GB = $1.04M

$1.04M/40gbps = 1.04M/40000 = $26/Mbps.

I pay less than a 10th of that outside.

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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by tonfa on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:07AM (#13559508)
You colo bandwidth is likely not from a global CDN with hundreds of PoP: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by patrickg_zill on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:27AM (#13559968)
Bandwidth is bandwidth these days. Plenty of companies like Internap are out there that can help you with low latency bandwidth, especially when you are spending a lot.

But given that Snap could be anywhere in the USA, they could locate their servers anywhere. I wasn't pushing Denver, or the colo I am in, as the solution.

It's just kind of shocking that people are willing to pay 20 times or more the going rate for bandwidth...

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