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Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

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Re: Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

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Post by slackingoff2017 »

How is this is a surprise to anyone? The big players are all pushing their clouds because its a cash bonanza. It's the SaaS model for hardware, make money forever because your customers never own anything.

I've done the math many times and it's orders of magnitude cheaper to colocate as long as you can afford an IT guy and the upfront cost of hardware.

Re: Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

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Post by fhoffa »

amluto wrote: post #8
cobookman wrote: post #2

I dont think its fair to compare GCP's egress costs to a colo's. A collocation is simply sending your packets straight to the internet, where-as GCP routes your packets over private fiber to its closet POP to your user. Giving you better latency.

The last time I measured AWS latency to anywhere, it tens of milliseconds higher than the super-cheap-and-crappy virtual server service I compared it to.

You can measure it now:

- http://www.gcping.com/

(From your browser to multiple Google zones)

Re: Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

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Post by slackingoff2017 »

cobookman wrote: post #2

I dont think its fair to compare GCP's egress costs to a colo's. A collocation is simply sending your packets straight to the internet, where-as GCP routes your packets over private fiber to its closet POP to your user. Giving you better latency.

This is only true with Google as far as I know. And I'm fairly sure that all cloud providers only have maybe 10 edge routers in the US so the utility is limited. You can't have too many edge routers because they rely on IP Anycast which is dangerous to do if your routes are too similar.

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Post by dddchk »

Cannot agree more with title. I did a comparative model of AWS bills and colo bills in the context of companies of different sizes (https://blog.paxautoma.com/buy-or-rent-the-cost-model-hostin...). It turned out frequently overlooked costs for bandwidth and provisioned IOPS can be responsible of large chunk of the EC2 bill.

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Post by wmf »

mmalone wrote: post #12

Keep in mind that with cloud providers you're also paying for the SDN that makes dynamic provisioning of VMs and logical network segmentation possible. Scalable SDN is much harder / more expensive than traditional networking.

Yet they charge zero for the SDN and crazy high prices for Internet bandwidth.

Re: Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

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Post by PedroBatista »

mmalone wrote: post #12

Keep in mind that with cloud providers you're also paying for the SDN that makes dynamic provisioning of VMs and logical network segmentation possible. Scalable SDN is much harder / more expensive than traditional networking.

4 to 5 times more expensive?

Re: Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

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Post by mbesto »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #7

I have posted a few times about how absurdly expensive all the cloud providers are. If you have a baseline load you should be co-locating bare metal. Any excess capacity you need should spill over into your AWS/GCE/Azure account. For example: A dedicated m4.16xLarge EC2 instance in AWS is $3987/month. You could build that same server for $15,000 through Dell, lease it at $400/month (OpEx), and colo it with a 1GB/s bl…

> You could build that same server for $15,000 through Dell, lease it at $400/month (OpEx), and colo it with a 1GB/s blended bandwidth connection billed at the 95th percentile for $150/month.

And then magically maintain it for free?

Re: Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing

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Post by dna_polymerase »

cobookman wrote: post #2

I dont think its fair to compare GCP's egress costs to a colo's. A collocation is simply sending your packets straight to the internet, where-as GCP routes your packets over private fiber to its closet POP to your user. Giving you better latency.

You are right, the Google Network magic is awesome. Yet I agree with the opinion here. They charge more than they should. Yet I think in the long run it will become cheaper (AWS is always pushing for price reduction and the others will follow)
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