There is currently a widespread fear that quantitative tightening could arrive very rapidly, with disastrous effects on high multiplier tech stocks and other debt-fuelled businesses. They've all been getting hammered in uniform since at least December.
For those following along, the aws cloud front price for 70 TB / 100m requests runs $5,400 or so. Discounts available if you will do a one year term - say 20%. Ie, they are in ballpark.
I can believe cloudflare is cheaper for sure, but it’s not your an idiot for using aws level I don’t think. And aws is printing money.
I once paid $3 per GB (6 figures per year) way way back so this all looks cheap to me.
Perhaps Azure should offer to mail you the MicroSD card as well? Postage is only $0.58 for a First Class stamp, and less with a postal meter.
That would still be cheaper than Azure's transit traffic.
I work a lot with video production and mailing SD cards or driving around hard drives is still the best way to transfer data quickly and cheaply. The cloud is too expensive (both storage and egress) and P2P (Syncthing) is too slow with more than 2 contributors. Despite most of my regular team now having FTTH (except me!!), we still manually transfer media files and use P2P for the rest of the project.
Didn't they used to charge for transfers between resources in different AZ's in same region? And VNET peering I think was chargeable, so you'd have situations where within a region you'd be paying outbound AND INBOUND charges.
Anyways, the little I looked, the "free" bandwidth alliance data transfer really wasn't free from what I could see but I didn't look too hard.
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/44072079721...
And azure's Pricing is here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/...
Its not 12c per gig, its 8.75c per gig for Microsoft Routing... (at least from Europe and NA) and 8c for Internet Routing... Not a massive saving... Mind you, if you are based in South America, you go from 18.1c per gig down to 12...
For Us, mostly based in Europe, it would be a difference of around 995 per month on Azure Bandwidth costs, if all our bandwidth just came from Azure. Same for South America is 6 grand in savings...
AWS egress is 0.05 at scale. That is competitive with Azure egress.
We keep on hearing things like AWS is 80x price, but no one will actually show the math where I can actually get 0.01 range egress.
So, yes, there is a discount to be had, but there are discounts with AWS as well.
1: we are paying (ballpark) 5-10k for our account. We have 5-10 domains on the enterprise plan, and we have roughly 100m requests per month plus about 70TB bandwidth, IIRC... Mind you, we have other sites that are on Pro ($20) or business ($200) plans and they are coming in at around a million requests a day (only about 2-3Gb a day) and no one complains.. could be the 5-10k we spend a month with them makes them think twice... Most of our cost is for the 24/7 tech support, regular meetings, etc. extra domains are a somewhat fixed cost (little over double a business plan domain) and that gives us extra features.
2: for Azure and BW Alliance, we were told you need to use a storage account and use "Internet Routing" not "Azure Routing" for the account. Azure routing is, IIRC, 12c per Gig. Internet routing is closer to 8c... Cant see an option for Servers, but I think Internet Routing might work for them too...
3: Any proof of this? I do know there is a limit of 256Mbyte for free account files, but not sure about what the limits on Pro or Business accounts...
4: https://cloudflare.net/news/news-details/2021/Cloudflare-Ann... Seems they spend nearly double on Sales and Marketing than they do on R&D... and they seem to be currently loosing money, but what startup doesn't lose money for the first few years?
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