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Re:Amazon EBS Update – New Elastic Volumes Change Everything by nh2 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:35PM (#13645880)
Here are some numbers:

AWS Internet traffic costs ~60x as much as renting bare metal servers.

No change in architecture can change that fact.

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Re:Amazon EBS Update – New Elastic Volumes Change Everything by jronald on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:35PM (#13646423)
That's one example and matches a use case where AWS / "Cloud" providers may not be ideal. Hybrid setups with external CDN can mitigate some of this as well.
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