AWS drops bandwidth pricing
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AWS drops bandwidth pricing
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Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing
#2My blogpost w background information: http://wv.ly/iLDaqu
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#3Good lord, about time. Why was incoming bandwidth ever on the list?
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#4ooh "AWS drops bandwidth pricing" come on please be true! darn it just inbound.
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#5Amazon is now the #1 choice for web scrapers everywhere :)
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#6For someone inexperienced in this market, why wouldn't they just say free? I've never heard someone sell something for "$0.00"
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#7ooh "AWS drops bandwidth pricing" come on please be true! darn it just inbound.
It's not just inbound, see the "previous" column here: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/06/aws-lowers-its-pricing-ag...
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#8For someone inexperienced in this market, why wouldn't they just say free? I've never heard someone sell something for "$0.00"
Free is better for singular marketing messages. But for tabular data, when you're comparing different points, keeping the unit consistent is better.
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#9The pricing change is better understood with the tables here which include a "previous" column:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/06/aws-lowers-its-pricing-ag...
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#10I don't even remember what the old pricing was. For the first (non-free tier), was it at 0.18? 0.12/gb is getting pretty cheap for non-bulk bandwidth of this quality.
edit
above poster has link showing it was 0.15