AWS doesn't route EU traffic via US, that would be nuts. And the EU
customers would be outraged too.

On 4 September 2011 17:53, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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