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Re: Cloud Egress Costs

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Post by reaperman »

mocamoca wrote: post #9

OVHCloud is free https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/faq/ As a data company we really benefit from Scaleway, Hetzner and Ovh. However, Scale way has no plans to add an US infra And I don't know if Hetzner has US présence?

Hetzner has a limited US presence for VM products but not baremetal/dedicated solutions.

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Post by teamspirit »

Isn’t this what makes cloudflare’s R2 a great proposition? No egress costs with very competitive storage and operation pricing.

It’s not as mature as the others, I don’t believe you can use your own encryption key for example, but why would anyone starting out not choose R2? Hopefully they push the market in their direction.

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Post by kkielhofner »

naiv wrote: post #2

I think the overview is missing a column of what data is actually allowed for 'free' egress. Iirc eg Cloudflare does not allow videos etc. as part of their free tier. edit: confused ingress and egress

We’re talking about egress - traffic leaving the network. Due to traffic patterns and other reasons (Hotel California) ingress is always free, egress is charged.

There is some debate about the status of hosting video when using Cloudflare as a CDN.

These comparisons are for hosts/object store.

Cloudflare R2 has no restrictions on the type of content while not charging for egress.

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Post by shdh »

teamspirit wrote: post #12

Isn’t this what makes cloudflare’s R2 a great proposition? No egress costs with very competitive storage and operation pricing. It’s not as mature as the others, I don’t believe you can use your own encryption key for example, but why would anyone starting out not choose R2? Hopefully they push the market in their direction.

R2 works great from my experience, no egress costs are a huge sell.

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Post by _cenw »

naiv wrote: post #2

I think the overview is missing a column of what data is actually allowed for 'free' egress. Iirc eg Cloudflare does not allow videos etc. as part of their free tier. edit: confused ingress and egress

Hetzner has seen two known cases of people being evicted for bandwidth use, and they were saturating the link 24/7 for several months by syncing an endless amount of footage to archive.

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Post by mocamoca »

jupp0r wrote: post #5

I'm confused by that website using $/mo as the unit to describe the cost of 1TB egress. How does the time component play into this? I would have expected the cost to be described in $/TB.

I got confused too at first.

But it makes sense because the counters get reset each month.

So if you consume "101TB" over a year, distributed as 90TB in January and then 1TB per month... You could get hit pretty hard in January and have free bandwidth for the rest of the year.

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Post by jonatron »

PreInternet01 wrote: post #7

The cost of egress traffic is a very good reason for many organizations to not fully migrate to a cloud provider anytime soon. And since, unlike with storage costs, there doesn't seem to be an actual reason (other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases), that seems kind of... weird? Small example: an actual company I do some work for is in the business of delivering creative ass…

The AWS Enterprise Discount Program apparently requires $1M per year spend. 180TB is about $13k on AWS so presumably not enough to be interesting to them. Hopefully someone who works at AWS can share some info.

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Post by _cenw »

mholt wrote: post #6

This website is missing Wasabi [0], which has free egress. (Not necessarily endorsing, just noticed.) [0]: https://wasabi.com

heavily recommending against wasabi, they increased prices recently and announced this via their newsletter, the one with an unsubscribe button, and then blamed me for unsubscribing (and never refunded the charge). highly unprofessional and a lack of understanding of the GDPR for someone who is supposed to hold all your data.
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