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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by Guvante on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:27PM (#29357086)
Egress does not mean S3 or Cloudflare. Egress is the raw pipe billing from AWS to the wider internet. Other services are priced differently.
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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by onphonenow on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:15AM (#29357944)
That’s where folks are revealing how clueless they are.

Raw pipe isn’t priced in GB it’s in capacity. To serve GB on Black Friday you need to provision far far more capacity

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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:19AM (#29359060)
Yeah but people can do that math. Peak bandwidth is not 200x higher than average bandwidth.

Cloudflare used a 5x multiplier. How high do you think it needs to be? Does total AWS bandwidth even go up that much on black friday?

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