OT, but probably because if they made it much cheaper, it would be huge lure for US customers (not worried about latency) to use the EU data center.
But even for EU bound traffic, they probably route it to US datacenters first then route it via internal networks to the EU. Mainly for quality of service reasons, they have more control over their internal network (even it it works via public internet) than pure public internet. So they would be paying US 'entry/exit' rates, but only charging EU rates. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Sergey Schetinin <[email protected]> wrote: > Amazingly enough AWS still prices their bandwidth from EU datacenter > at $0.120 per GB > > On 4 September 2011 17:33, Philip <[email protected]> wrote: >> Joshua is correct with some tuning you can improve your instance count >> quite well. I have set Max Idle Instances to 2 and kept Min Pending >> latency at auto and I am seeing some good results. >> >> However, I still think there is needed some competition here in the US >> market. Traffic is way cheaper in Europe than here. If you take a look >> at the offer from Hetzner for 15$/month you'll get 2TB of traffic >> included. With the new GAE pricing this could cost you about 300$ >> here. The OVH offer for 8€ even includes a 100MBits flatrate. >> >> On Sep 4, 4:22 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Joshua >>> >>> Thanks for your input I feel I can get my small instances down to the >>> $9-$15 per month territory too. >>> But I wanted to not have to argue that point too much here ;-) >>> >>> Anyone running a small instance that is well optimised should have a good >>> handle on what it will cost them. >>> >>> So lets restate - For purposes of comparison the approximate cost for an >>> appengine small app is going to be >>> anywhere from $0 (below free threshold) up to say $30 and the sweet spot >>> which should be attainable by >>> most apps in the category is going to be in the $9-$15 per month territory >>> >>> Hows that sound ? >>> >>> Regrds >>> >>> Tim >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> > > > > -- > http://self.maluke.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
