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Cloud Egress Costs

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Re: Cloud Egress Costs

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post #6

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

They have free egress up to your data storage usage.

So if you use 1TB storage but 2TB egress , it will not be free anymore.

Re: Cloud Egress Costs

#32
post #31
post #6

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

They have free egress up to your data storage usage. So if you use 1TB storage but 2TB egress , it will not be free anymore.

Right; Backblaze has similar pricing as you can see on the table.

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#33
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.

Thanks, that makes sense. I'll update this so it's clearer.

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#34

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 is an insane value proposition. We calculated the cost of moving HLS video delivery to it and unless you are delivering a huge amount of traffic, the costs are far lower. Highly recommend you consider it, assuming you are willing/able to handle appropriate transcoding yourself (if not, Cloudflare has it's Stream product)

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#35
post #23

> Cloudflare -- Free Perhaps on self-serve plans with insignificant traffic. On enterprise plans they do set bandwidth caps. Our company exceeded our bandwidth cap and our account rep reached out to reprice our contract. I asked him if turning off Argo (a service billed by bandwidth) would remove the bandwidth overage and they said no. TlDR: Cloudflare bandwidth isn’t free at the enterprise tier.

Cloudflare's enterprise offerings are bizarre. We went through the process to get it priced out and it made no sense for us. I could see how some of the features would be worth it for some businesses, but not for us.

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#36
post #23

> Cloudflare -- Free Perhaps on self-serve plans with insignificant traffic. On enterprise plans they do set bandwidth caps. Our company exceeded our bandwidth cap and our account rep reached out to reprice our contract. I asked him if turning off Argo (a service billed by bandwidth) would remove the bandwidth overage and they said no. TlDR: Cloudflare bandwidth isn’t free at the enterprise tier.

I assume they internally have different quality levels of traffic so Enterprise would get better (and more expensive) routing?

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post #24

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…

It really depends on the quality of the peering you expect. It doesn't matter, until it does. Consumer ISPs sometimes do their utmost to not peer with open exchanges, and the entire thing gets even more complex when you go to places where bandwidth is more expensive (i.e. Oceania). There's a reason the favorite chart to exemplify value Cloudflare reps like to show is Argo Smart Routing, and why it costs about $100 pe…

We are using Argo for our xhr search traffic as it makes more sense than setting up different servers/vms in parts of the world. Each request is only 1kb max.

But I would not use it for static assets. For this we use Bunny edge storage to provide faster response times at very reasonable prices.

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#39
post #25

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…

My feeling is that egress is easily measured, so it's where costs that are hard to assess get moved to. It doesn't feel great to be line item billed for stuff at 10x the rate of credible other offers. I think there is also some geo-specific pricing that gets hidden in a global price; bandwidth can be a lot more expensive in some locations than others and if you are charged 5x for egress in south america, nobody will…

Right. Egress is an imperfect, but reasonable metric for overall utilization. If they started charging for CPU hertz above a certain threshold, that'd be a harder sell.

Re: Cloud Egress Costs

#40
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?

European providers benefit from lower cross-connect fees in datacenters and more internet exchanges for easy peering. It's not surprising they offer more bandwidth at the same cost.
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