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Anyone (no longer under NDA) know if Apple intends to migrate user iCloud data from AWS and GCP object stores to their own data centers at some point?
Do NDAs expire? AFAIK you sign an NDA and you’re bound to respect that forever. Unless the knowledge becomes publicly available.
Is there a plausible explanation why egress fees from cloud providers costs around $0.1/GB? "Traditional" server providers such as Hetzner are able to offer bandwidth at orders of magnitude lower price (eg. $1.1/TB). I understand that cloud providers may have better interconnects or better uptimes, but that doesn't justify the magnitudes higher pricing.
For a service I built on AWS lambda, the far majority of the cost was just data egress. Unfortunately I haven’t found a competitor that offers the same kind of features that I’m using lambda for (running golang with additional custom binaries)
Cheap shovels and expensive ladders.
> A person close to AWS said its data transfer charges reflect a range of technology costs customers would normally pay if they weren’t using cloud services, including fiber optic connections, networking hardware devices and software, cybersecurity services and network monitoring software. I'd believe this more if the pricing of bandwidth on AWS hadn't stayed pretty flat since its launch. Plus, it's frustrating that…
"The charges don’t appear to be a case of cloud providers gouging their customers" I disagree on this one. The margins on egress are, well...egregious.
At some point everyone realized they could charge a massive premium per bit and as long as everyone did it, customers would have to pay. So here we are.
Even if a cloud provider had competitive transfer costs they likely wouldn't attract any new customers and would have less margin left over to subsidize the main cost customers look at, $ per instance hour.
The less attention is paid to transfer costs the better for AWS/GCP/Azure. Why hasn't a spot-market for transfer been introduced? Same reason why I can't sell my unused home internet bandwidth to my neighbors, the money is in controlling the means of transportation/communication and the providers want to keep as tight a control on that as possible.
"The charges don’t appear to be a case of cloud providers gouging their customers" I disagree on this one. The margins on egress are, well...egregious.
Anyone (no longer under NDA) know if Apple intends to migrate user iCloud data from AWS and GCP object stores to their own data centers at some point?
> no longer under NDA Do NDAs expire? AFAIK you sign an NDA and you’re bound to respect that forever. Unless the knowledge becomes publicly available.
As a quick example, this random free template I found online[0] uses "5 years".
Any chance some of those high costs are due to movement of data due to GDPR compliance? Maybe Apple did all its prep in 2017.
Also there are some misconceptions on inter-AZ data transfer as well: (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...)