Thanks for that, John -- what I was envisioning is that customers
might get hit sideways with huge bandwidth bills... especially if you
made a public service. I'm thinking, if I have some cool code I want
to show off, this would be an easy place to get started, but I guess
the same bandwidth-overage charges would apply anywhere. Your
breakdown and comparison is very helpful.
The scalability of service seems like it is worth quite a lot, to me :)
Ben
On 3/15/06, John Sechrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> 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
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