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Re:AWS Private 5G by femto113 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:44PM (#29398415)
That's not the way AWS typically prices things--my guess is the hardware and setup costs will be baked into the monthly service charges.
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Re:AWS Private 5G by jcims on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:07PM (#29398588)
Generally yes but outpost is a little different:

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/pricing/

Either way this is just a guess :)

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Re:AWS Private 5G by femto113 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:33AM (#29401291)
Even with Outposts you're not "buying" the rack (Amazon still owns it and takes it away at the end of the term), you're just committing to keeping it long enough for them to make money on it. The choice of paying upfront or paying monthly is roughly the same money management strategy available with any AWS service (e.g. EC2 Reserved Instances), and likely is more about lining up with capex/opex decisions than actual cost savings.
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Re:AWS Private 5G by jcims on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:50PM (#29407556)
Totally agree 100%. Text communication sucks sometimes, if we were talking over beers it would have taken 3-5 seconds to clear up.
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