Re:Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
by reitzensteinm on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:29PM
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$2000, it seems like you dropped a zero. And you're presumably going to need some burst capacity, so call it $4k for a 2:1 ratio if you care about not throttling at peak times.
The big cloud providers are very expensive, but you're getting impeccable bandwidth. Low packet loss, burst what you want even in peak times, fast transit worldwide, minimal variability.
What most people actually don't realize is that they're making that tradeoff implicitly. You're not being ripped off if you need all of these things, but if it's overkill you can get much cheaper bandwidth elsewhere.
The big cloud providers are very expensive, but you're getting impeccable bandwidth. Low packet loss, burst what you want even in peak times, fast transit worldwide, minimal variability.
What most people actually don't realize is that they're making that tradeoff implicitly. You're not being ripped off if you need all of these things, but if it's overkill you can get much cheaper bandwidth elsewhere.