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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by torginus on Saturday November 27, 2021 @06:24AM (#29359351)
I wonder, if you made a video streaming app on top of AWS you could negotiate a significant reduction of fees, since you're not ruining their business by transferring out valuable data to competitors. And if that's the case, I wonder if that constitutes a breach of net neutrality in practice, since in practice, a major part of bandwidth costs will depend on what kind of information you are transferring.
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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by nielsole on Saturday November 27, 2021 @09:03AM (#29360211)
My suspicion is that not even Netflix gets the egress out of AWS at commodity market rate. The vast majority of traffic will be handled by their own CDN
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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by jedberg on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:28PM (#29394755)
Netflix doesn't pay anything for egress of video because it doesn't serve any video from AWS.

As for everything else, AWS offers tiered pricing for everyone and it's the same for everyone. They just don't publish the tiers at that level, but yes, Netflix pays less than you probably do because they're in the higher tier -- but they pay the same as all the other companies at that tier.

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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by nielsole on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:53PM (#29400123)
Thanks! I had been curious about that for quite some time now.
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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by KptMarchewa on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:01PM (#29370526)
You don't need to speculate. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
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Re:AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet by nielsole on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:54AM (#29389932)
Your link has no information about their egress pricing with AWS which is the only thing I was speculating about.
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