Re:The Amazon Premium
by paulddraper on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:53PM
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> Is it the norm for CPU to be a bigger line item than transfer?
Not universal, but certainly very normal.
1. Transfer within a data center is usually free.
2. CDN reduce transfer fees significantly for static content.
3. Transfer is pay-what-you-use, whereas compute is traditionally pay-what-you-reserve.
AWS transfer are $0/GB incoming; $0.09/GB outgoing. A c5.large (1 physical CPU, 4GB RAM) is $0.09/hour.
So as long as you average less than 291KB/s from your single-core machine, you will spend more on compute than transfer.
Considering that you probably overprovision the CPU to handle spikiness, this is quite likely especially for a typical JSON API server (no images, no video, no web assets).
Not universal, but certainly very normal.
1. Transfer within a data center is usually free.
2. CDN reduce transfer fees significantly for static content.
3. Transfer is pay-what-you-use, whereas compute is traditionally pay-what-you-reserve.
AWS transfer are $0/GB incoming; $0.09/GB outgoing. A c5.large (1 physical CPU, 4GB RAM) is $0.09/hour.
So as long as you average less than 291KB/s from your single-core machine, you will spend more on compute than transfer.
Considering that you probably overprovision the CPU to handle spikiness, this is quite likely especially for a typical JSON API server (no images, no video, no web assets).