Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that

Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by goldinfra on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:30PM (#38027974)

Beware of cloud providers that don't "charge for egress" but do charge on a metric that is effectively a proxy for egress.

For example, a cloud streaming service that charges for video delivery by per minute streamed is just charging for egress with extra steps.

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by buggeryorkshire on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:52PM (#38029207)

Eh? If you're delivering video at scale there's no way anybody is going to do that for free?

Whereas with AWS they charge you for traffic between AWS regions last time I checked?

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:07PM (#38029456)

They're not asking for free service, they're just noting that a claim of "free egress" might be a lie.

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by omnimus on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:07PM (#38029463)

Any CDN that doesnt charge for egress (like cloudflare) will deliver your videos without charges.

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by dilyevsky on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:46PM (#38030034)

Delivering video will instantly promote you to their business plan where you are charged

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by andrewstuart on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:55AM (#38036544)

The CTO of Cloudflare denied that.

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by omnimus on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:06PM (#38040328)

Afaik its allowed with R2.

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by baq on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:29PM (#38029770)

You see egress with extra steps, I see billing for work relevant to my business and my customers

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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by donmcronald on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:06PM (#38031035)

> For example, a cloud streaming service that charges for video delivery by per minute streamed is just charging for egress with extra steps.

It's even worse than paying for egress because the cloud provider gets to capture any gains in compression technology, right?

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