1Gbps of sustained outbound transfer on aws is about $21,000/month in us-east-1.
that's it. that's the tweet.
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HE offers a full rack with 12A of power and 1Gbps of symmetrical transit for $400/month. Where did we go wrong?
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Seven layers deep into a debugging session on my home server, I am pretty confident they don't sell the same product.
Maybe they used to when EC2 was the main offering.
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I don't think AWS is trying to extract the value of their other products from their data transfer charges. You pay a premium on all of your resources within AWS, but 70x on data transfer is a tax to keep a moat, not the cost of their value-add.
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ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-c is an apples to apples comparison with baseline AWS functionality without metered traffic for instance bandwidth.
Comparison between abstracted cloud services and managing your own servers isn't necessary. Can have cheap unmetered bandwidth either way.
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To counter that point, I haven't seen an AWS facility catch fire...
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AWS has major outages and data loss incidents. A fire is one way that can happen. You need to be prepared for it regardless of the provider.
theregister.com/2019/09/04/aws
I don't know how it counters what I said about unmetered bandwidth existing for at least one high level platform.
We have a VPS hosted in OVH's SBG3 data centre that's down because of the SBG2 fire. Spun up a new VPS at another data centre right away.
If anything, I'm more inclined to use them based on their transparency and honesty about it.
Was a reminder to make sure other backups work.
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