AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN (opens in new tab)

(aws.amazon.com)

47 pointsbdb4y ago16 comments

16 comments

How about lowering the data transfer prices going out to the internet? $0.09/GB is a joke (and in poor taste).

For what it's worth, we run "edge compute" with two separate mid-sized CDNs and pay about $0.005 per GB. This required a bit of negotiation, but has no minimum commitment and is on a monthly term. Yes, even lower fees can be had if you build your own infrastructure and pay for bandwidth on a CDR, but this is a fairly apples-for-apples case where we are not doing that.

So yes, AWS, GCP, Azure bandwidth pricing is very high. Oracle is, amazingly, the outlier with lower bandwidth pricing.

thrtythreeforty4y ago

Oracle has to compete somehow (they're a distant fourth in public cloud market share) and bandwidth pricing is an obvious place for them to try. It's compelling, but I don't know if it's compelling enough for a lot of people to be willing to give Oracle money...

judge20204y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if data transfer fees as a percentage of their total revenue account for >10%. As long as GCP (standard tier 0.085) and Azure (0.08 non-MS-backhaul standard routing) don't charge extremely lower rates, it's not beneficial to lower their rate.

srcno4y ago

How about the price of EBS volumes as well? I believe the price for gp2 has been $0.10/GB (USE1) since 2014 and gp3 only reduced the price slightly.

techdragon4y ago

I always assumed that when they stop dropping the price of older instance types, storage types and other such things, that’s their subtle way of encouraging both new and existing users to chose or migrate to the newer ones in order to not just get the new features but to obtain the cost savings.

nodesocket4y ago

How about lowering the price of an essential service NAT gateway? Each NAT gateway is $33 per month (without bandwidth charges) and generally if you want to be HA you need one NAT gateway per AZ.

RexM4y ago

I agree. Why is this an hourly charge? Same for endpoints in a private subnet.

Are there actual compute resources necessary to make endpoints and nat gateways work?

nodesocket4y ago

I assume the hourly charge is because NAT gateways are just EC2 instances, but they should be able to deploy using t4g instances and the monthly costs should be lowered significantly.

EJCK3HEJOVOF4y ago

NAT Gateway and a bunch of our other fancy networking gadgets are based on a thing publicly called Hyperplane, and at the end of the day it's just EC2 instances. I'm skeptical that we'd ever use T series instances for this kind of thing for multiple reasons, but there are efforts to move internal systems to Graviton.

The reason for the hourly cost is a bit subtler than that, but we are working on the cost of this stuff.

(Source: Work at AWS.)

2 more replies

QuinnyPig4y ago

You are singing my song here...

jjoonathan4y ago

Yeah but were the prices sky high to begin with and still sky high now? That's the usual AWS hustle.

Fizzadar4y ago

Does this mean running a VPC in each AZ connected via Transit Gateway is 100% cheaper than a single VPC w/subnets in each AZ?!

Regularly see EC2 interzone account for 1/3 of EC2 cost this would be a huge win if so (albeit totally ridiculous).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

16 comments

EarlKing4y ago

How about lowering the data transfer prices going out to the internet? $0.09/GB is a joke (and in poor taste).

samcrawford4y ago

So yes, AWS, GCP, Azure bandwidth pricing is very high. Oracle is, amazingly, the outlier with lower bandwidth pricing.

thrtythreeforty4y ago

judge20204y ago

srcno4y ago

How about the price of EBS volumes as well? I believe the price for gp2 has been $0.10/GB (USE1) since 2014 and gp3 only reduced the price slightly.

techdragon4y ago

nodesocket4y ago

How about lowering the price of an essential service NAT gateway? Each NAT gateway is $33 per month (without bandwidth charges) and generally if you want to be HA you need one NAT gateway per AZ.

RexM4y ago

I agree. Why is this an hourly charge? Same for endpoints in a private subnet.

Are there actual compute resources necessary to make endpoints and nat gateways work?

nodesocket4y ago

I assume the hourly charge is because NAT gateways are just EC2 instances, but they should be able to deploy using t4g instances and the monthly costs should be lowered significantly.

EJCK3HEJOVOF4y ago

The reason for the hourly cost is a bit subtler than that, but we are working on the cost of this stuff.

(Source: Work at AWS.)

2 more replies

QuinnyPig4y ago

You are singing my song here...

jjoonathan4y ago

Yeah but were the prices sky high to begin with and still sky high now? That's the usual AWS hustle.

Fizzadar4y ago

Does this mean running a VPC in each AZ connected via Transit Gateway is 100% cheaper than a single VPC w/subnets in each AZ?!

Regularly see EC2 interzone account for 1/3 of EC2 cost this would be a huge win if so (albeit totally ridiculous).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse