AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
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Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#2How about lowering the price of an essential service NAT gateway? Each NAT gateway is $33 per month (without bandwidth charges) and generally if you want to be HA you need one NAT gateway per AZ.
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#3How about lowering the data transfer prices going out to the internet? $0.09/GB is a joke (and in poor taste).
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#4How about lowering the price of an essential service NAT gateway? Each NAT gateway is $33 per month (without bandwidth charges) and generally if you want to be HA you need one NAT gateway per AZ.
I agree. Why is this an hourly charge? Same for endpoints in a private subnet.
Are there actual compute resources necessary to make endpoints and nat gateways work?
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#5How about lowering the price of an essential service NAT gateway? Each NAT gateway is $33 per month (without bandwidth charges) and generally if you want to be HA you need one NAT gateway per AZ.
I agree. Why is this an hourly charge? Same for endpoints in a private subnet. Are there actual compute resources necessary to make endpoints and nat gateways work?
I assume the hourly charge is because NAT gateways are just EC2 instances, but they should be able to deploy using t4g instances and the monthly costs should be lowered significantly.
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#6How about lowering the data transfer prices going out to the internet? $0.09/GB is a joke (and in poor taste).
I wouldn't be surprised if data transfer fees as a percentage of their total revenue account for >10%. As long as GCP (standard tier 0.085) and Azure (0.08 non-MS-backhaul standard routing) don't charge extremely lower rates, it's not beneficial to lower their rate.
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#7Does this mean running a VPC in each AZ connected via Transit Gateway is 100% cheaper than a single VPC w/subnets in each AZ?!
Regularly see EC2 interzone account for 1/3 of EC2 cost this would be a huge win if so (albeit totally ridiculous).
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#8Yeah but were the prices sky high to begin with and still sky high now? That's the usual AWS hustle.
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#9How about lowering the data transfer prices going out to the internet? $0.09/GB is a joke (and in poor taste).
How about the price of EBS volumes as well? I believe the price for gp2 has been $0.10/GB (USE1) since 2014 and gp3 only reduced the price slightly.
Re: AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
#10How about lowering the data transfer prices going out to the internet? $0.09/GB is a joke (and in poor taste).
For what it's worth, we run "edge compute" with two separate mid-sized CDNs and pay about $0.005 per GB. This required a bit of negotiation, but has no minimum commitment and is on a monthly term. Yes, even lower fees can be had if you build your own infrastructure and pay for bandwidth on a CDR, but this is a fairly apples-for-apples case where we are not doing that.
So yes, AWS, GCP, Azure bandwidth pricing is very high. Oracle is, amazingly, the outlier with lower bandwidth pricing.