Bandwidth.... Hmmm. I know that in a datacenter, you can get a connection to the network for somewhere between $50 and $400 for 1Mbps feed.
This is the nominal cost for the bandwidth. What does this look like on a per gigabyte pricing? Let see: 60 seconds/minute 60 minutes/hours * 24 hours/day * p 86400 seconds/day 30 days/month * p 2592000 seconds/month 1000 gigabytes/megabyte / p 2592 gigabytes/month 400 dollars/month 2592 G/M / p $0.1543 per gigabyte 50 dollars/month 2592 G/M / p $0.0192 per gigabyte So at $.20 per Gig per transfer, They are in the ball park of what a small data center would be charging for data transfer at $400/M But if Amazon is able to get a good deal on bandwidth, with $50/M, Then they will be doing well. So The idea that they are "making a killing on bandwidth", really depends on what the expense structure for the bandwidth that they have. "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % Wowzas, amazon seems to have broken a barrier in this new service % oriented toward developers: totally scalable webhosting, which "is % intentionally built with a minimal feature set"... the costs are zero % startup, fifteen cents per gigabyte per month storage, and (sorta the % kicker) twenty cents per gigabyte of transfer... access is by HTTP, % supporting authentication and access controls, using REST and SOAP. % % Also says, "A BitTorrent (TM) protocol interface is provided to lower % costs for high-scale distribution. Additional interfaces will be % added in the future." % % Looks like they'll make a killing on bandwidth. Cool thing is that % object/file sizes are up to five gigabytes.... I wonder if they only % charge bandwidth for the torrent seed, or if not, whether you can % control your upload rate! Yikes. So they're touting "unlimited % storage" on this one, but probably have near-unlimited network % capabilities - can you imagine the overnight bill for say hosting the % latest knoppix? % % This has some terrific potential though, and I'm hoping it pressures % more traditional hosting companies into more scalable "a la carte" % offerings. :) % % blog entry, sorry to be verbose if you've dugg: % http://www.betaflow.com/2006/03/14/amazon-offers-unlimited-storage/ % % S3 page: % http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-0771510-6189758?node=3D16427261 % % % Ben % _______________________________________________ % EUGLUG mailing list % [email protected] % http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug ----- John Sechrest . Helping people use . computers and the Internet . more effectively . . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
