Re:Cloud Egress Costs
by 8organicbits on Sunday February 11, 2024 @01:59AM
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One trick to watch out for: a cloud provider offering inexpensive egress can still make high-egress expensive by controlling the network speed of their instances. Several vendors require you to scale your whole instance if you saturate any of the components (like needing to upgrade from the 2 CPU to the 4 CPU instance to increase the network throughput, even though you don't need more CPU). On paper egress looks cheap and the instances look well priced for the hardware you get, but if you workload doesn't need balanced a balanced instance (1 CPU / 1 GB RAM / etc.) the pricing can get wonky.
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> Several vendors require you to scale your whole instance if you saturate any of the components (...)
Interesting. Which cloud providers do you have in mind?
Re:Cloud Egress Costs
by PuffinBlue on Sunday February 11, 2024 @07:53AM
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The GP might be referring to how most of the non-hyperscalers like Linode or DigitalOcean or Vultr tie total monthly egress to instance size. IIRC they do allow overage charges at $x per GB but it quickly becomes more expensive to do it that way.