AWS EC2 General Price Cut

Post by doctorfoo » Sun, May 10, 2020, 4:32 AM UTC

User23 wrote: post #55

doctorfoo wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this. the only way I can make profit with my web service is by using a third party low budget CDN as a caching layer. Even with that, S3 data transfer remains my biggest cost. if I could spare the time, I'd make a custom caching layer so that S3 is never hit at all except for upload, and is used only for disaster recovery.

Sounds like you just had a million dollar idea. Why not build it out and offer it to the many many other people in your position?

Post by x3blah » Sun, May 10, 2020, 4:33 AM UTC

abtinf wrote: post #12

TechBro8615 wrote: post #7

Are they still extorting customers by price gouging bandwidth? Maybe one day I’ll wake up to news they’ve decided to charge for capacity instead of transfer.

> Are they still extorting customers... That is a contradiction in terms. According to the OED: Extort means to "obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means." Customer means "a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business" Thus, extortion is a coercive relationship--we call the target of extortion a victim, not a customer. The relationship of a vendor and customer is vol…

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Post by doctorfoo » Sun, May 10, 2020, 4:36 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #56

doctorfoo wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this. the only way I can make profit with my web service is by using a third party low budget CDN as a caching layer. Even with that, S3 data transfer remains my biggest cost. if I could spare the time, I'd make a custom caching layer so that S3 is never hit at all except for upload, and is used only for disaster recovery.

Backblaze B2 is what you’re looking for.

Post by User23 » Sun, May 10, 2020, 4:38 AM UTC

jgalt212 wrote: post #17

AWS and EC2 is probably a pretty good deal for high CPU, hi IO within the cloud, but very low IO egress. Monte Carlo simulations? PDE computations?

Post by johntash » Sun, May 10, 2020, 4:44 AM UTC

doctorfoo wrote: post #53

SteveNuts wrote: post #47

I'm waiting for the day they announce bandwidth price cuts

this. the only way I can make profit with my web service is by using a third party low budget CDN as a caching layer. Even with that, S3 data transfer remains my biggest cost. if I could spare the time, I'd make a custom caching layer so that S3 is never hit at all except for upload, and is used only for disaster recovery.