AWS drops bandwidth pricing • Hacker News Board

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by benologist » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 3:41 AM UTC

nhoss2 wrote: post #4

ooh "AWS drops bandwidth pricing" come on please be true! darn it just inbound.

Outbound looks like it's dropped a few cents too although Asia's still expensive.

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by nigelsampson » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 3:42 AM UTC

I wonder if this was in reaction to the same pricing change from MS Azure http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/06/22/anno...

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by nhoss2 » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 3:46 AM UTC

timf wrote: post #7

nhoss2 wrote: post #4

ooh "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...

oh ok, I thought "drops" meant get rid of but reducing is also great

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by wiradikusuma » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 3:47 AM UTC

this should put some pressure on recent Google App Engine price increase (fingers crossed)

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by mestudent » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 3:47 AM UTC

neworbit wrote: post #3

Good lord, about time. Why was incoming bandwidth ever on the list?

Because incoming still takes up bandwidth so it makes sense to count it is such. I however do remember it being free at some point in time.

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by baltcode » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 4:00 AM UTC

Rickasaurus wrote: post #5

Amazon is now the #1 choice for web scrapers everywhere :)

I thought most AWS IP addresses were blocked by most admins. Does any one have experience scraping using Amazon.

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by Joakal » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 4:05 AM UTC

Why is bandwidth pricing higher in Asia despite bandwidth rates there being among the highest in the world?

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by chaselee » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 4:11 AM UTC

Now if only Google App Engine would follow suit...oh wait they raised prices =/

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by davidu » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 4:12 AM UTC

Joakal wrote: post #17

Why is bandwidth pricing higher in Asia despite bandwidth rates there being among the highest in the world?

Your question answers itself.

I really don't know how much more to add, but I'll try.

Transit (bandwidth) costs more there because:

  1) Networks peer much less openly.
  2) This is mostly due to the presence of state-run monopoly telcos.  
  3) That's why BW costs more.
  4) Therefore, it costs more for AMZN to get transit in Asia.
  5) This is why it costs more for AWS customers to use bandwidth.
  6) This is why it costs more for you.

Re: AWS drops bandwidth pricing

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Post by abronte » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 4:13 AM UTC

baltcode wrote: post #16

Rickasaurus wrote: post #5

Amazon is now the #1 choice for web scrapers everywhere :)

I thought most AWS IP addresses were blocked by most admins. Does any one have experience scraping using Amazon.

We have a pretty big e-commerce scraping project, and we don't really run into many problems regarding blacklisted ip's. There are a few sites who we get consistent bans from, but with elastic ip's it's pretty much a non-issue. I have yet to see a site that ban's all amazon ip's.