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 >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- 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.
