Re:A million-dollar engineering problem
by stemuk on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:54PM
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This. I really feel like egress traffic costs is the most overlooked issue with popular cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud. Charging 9 or 12 cents for a mere GB of regular traffic is just insane, keeping in mind that even most CDNs are cheaper.
Data driven applications on AWS are already expensive because of the high traffic costs, but storing/serving media on S3 single handedly lets your bill explode.
For everyone who feels like the statements above are exaggerations, just check out their actual prices (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/) in comparison with a regular CDN (https://www.stackpath.com/pricing/).
Re:A million-dollar engineering problem
by tyingq on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:07PM
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A quick and dirty comparison would be 3TB out in a month. That's what's typically included at popular VPS services for a decent sized VPS that's $20/month. On an EC2 instance, just the bandwidth for that month would be $269.91.
Data driven applications on AWS are already expensive because of the high traffic costs, but storing/serving media on S3 single handedly lets your bill explode. For everyone who feels like the statements above are exaggerations, just check out their actual prices (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/) in comparison with a regular CDN (https://www.stackpath.com/pricing/).