Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
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Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#2Serious Q for big Cloud spenders - how much have you negiotiated egress down from the list price?
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#3Summary:
Use a provider that doesnt charge egress
Optimize your egress usage
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#4Serious Q for big Cloud spenders - how much have you negiotiated egress down from the list price?
Im not sure you can. At least at the scale we use AWS its a flat % off the top based on our spend
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#5Serious Q for big Cloud spenders - how much have you negiotiated egress down from the list price?
If you can sign a yearly bandwidth commit (not sure what the minimum bandwidth requirement is, but 1PB / year may be in the ballpark) - you will get prices that are extremely competitive (maybe like 90%+ off base list pricing?)
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#6TL;DR - author claims the hardest part of running a cloud PaaS is networking, thus the cloud providers charge you a ton for egress to outsource the optimization problem to you.
It's not clear to me this claim is true - they're in the business of solving exactly this optimization problem - and they have, they're just capturing maximum profit.
If it was really the hardest / most costly - then other providers wouldn't be able to offer it so much cheaper. It's clearly a solved problem.
This is just the knob the pricing departments found to be the one to dial to juice profits to the max.
The article seems like a puff piece to promote other providers.
But it could be useful to people shopping for cheap egress.
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#7Serious Q for big Cloud spenders - how much have you negiotiated egress down from the list price?
Not a extreme cloud spender but we have basically free egress on Azure. Well, "waived" for up to 15% of the total monthly bill so we can’t go too crazy.
It’s not secret information: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-egress-fee-waiv...
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#8Beware of cloud providers that don't "charge for egress" but do charge on a metric that is effectively a proxy for egress.
For example, a cloud streaming service that charges for video delivery by per minute streamed is just charging for egress with extra steps.
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#9TL;DR - author claims the hardest part of running a cloud PaaS is networking, thus the cloud providers charge you a ton for egress to outsource the optimization problem to you. It's not clear to me this claim is true - they're in the business of solving exactly this optimization problem - and they have, they're just capturing maximum profit. If it was really the hardest / most costly - then other providers wouldn't b…
??? This is obviously true. The bandwidth available in a geographic
location is, practically
speaking, limited. Roads are cheap to pave, but if there was congestion 24/7 and you paved all you could, then you would need to start rationing road usage. For a business the best way to ration is to charge more. Solving this problem requires a massive amount of engineering work, which would also justify the increased cost.
Re: Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
#10Summary: Use a provider that doesnt charge egress Optimize your egress usage
Hetzner comes to mind…