Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing

Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by eloff on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:35PM (#27259965)

> Apple's stance here is a little like if AWS tried to force people who use any AWS service to use their overpriced egress bandwidth for everything, and sued customers found to be using Cloudflare to reduce their costs.

Is that a good example? I think that's how it works. Egress out to cloudflare is billed at the full rate last I checked. GCP gives you a discount, but not AWS.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by Lazare on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:49AM (#27261651)

I meant using it as a cacheing layer, yes. Perhaps not the best example, but still!

AWS doesn't care if you try and offload some processing to cheap Hetzner servers; Stripe doesn't care if you offer Paypal as a second option. Apple very much cares about anything you do which might reduce the amount of money routed through the app store.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by saagarjha on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:45PM (#27260650)

I assume the situation here was using Cloudflare in front of your AWS so it doesn’t get hit as much, so your costs stay low. Of course AWS↔Cloudflare is going to cost money, but ideally they will be doing caching for you do the traffic on this is less.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by eloff on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:56PM (#27260714)

Yes, if your using it as a caching layer, that's correct.

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