Re:Cloud Egress Costs
by amluto on Saturday February 10, 2024 @06:44PM
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I can pay overpriced cross-connect rates in giant name brand datacenters, with or without terminating one end at Direct Connect. (AFAICT the $1600/mo or so for 10Gbps doesn’t actually cover the cost of the cross-connect.)
But that extra $65k/mo to fully utilize the link is utterly and completely nuts. My mind boggles when someone calls that a good deal. I can buy and fully depreciate the equipment needed to utilize that in a couple of days. (Well, I can’t actually buy equipment on the AWS end, but I can _rent_ it, from AWS, for a lot less money than $64k/mo.)
And I don’t believe at all that it costs AWS anything close to this much to operate the thing. I can, after all, send 10Gbps between two EC2 instances (or between S3 and EC2) for a lot less money.
That $65k is simply a punitive charge IMO. AWS wants me to avoid paying it by not doing this or, in cases where I can’t avoid it (e.g. the thing is actually a link to my office or a factory or whatever) to collect as much money as they can without driving me off AWS entirely.
But that extra $65k/mo to fully utilize the link is utterly and completely nuts. My mind boggles when someone calls that a good deal. I can buy and fully depreciate the equipment needed to utilize that in a couple of days. (Well, I can’t actually buy equipment on the AWS end, but I can _rent_ it, from AWS, for a lot less money than $64k/mo.)
And I don’t believe at all that it costs AWS anything close to this much to operate the thing. I can, after all, send 10Gbps between two EC2 instances (or between S3 and EC2) for a lot less money.
That $65k is simply a punitive charge IMO. AWS wants me to avoid paying it by not doing this or, in cases where I can’t avoid it (e.g. the thing is actually a link to my office or a factory or whatever) to collect as much money as they can without driving me off AWS entirely.