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Re:Google Adds WireGuard VPN to Android 12’s Linux Kernel 5.... by heavyset_go on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:48PM (#24832385)
If you're optimizing for bandwidth costs, I certainly wouldn't be using Google Cloud Storage or AWS, either. You're paying a premium for egress traffic with both of them.

This is kind of a false dichotomy, though. I doubt anyone would be developing their own CDN from scratch to distribute their app. In a world where other companies are allowed to enter the app distribution market and compete with Apple and Google, competition could finally drive costs down. There's no reason that instead of giving Google 30% of your revenue, you couldn't go with a company that is able to distribute your application more efficiently and at a lower cost to you.

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Re:Google Adds WireGuard VPN to Android 12’s Linux Kernel 5.... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:12PM (#24873501)
The premise was "these stores should really have a mode where you opt-out from their advertising and billing services. Instead they should just issue the developer an invoice for bandwidth / store costs".

At that point, the (expensive) GCS rates are exactly what you'd get.

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