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Order of magnitude? 1Gbit on amazon costs 22k/month. Even an order of magnitude cheaper sounds pretty damn expensive, two orders of magnitude still isn't "cheap".

It's really easy to underestimate how big of a ripoff EC2 bandwidth pricing is.



A 10gbit unmetered server can be leased for under $3k a month. 1Gbit can be under $300 a month depending on the hardware.


1Gbit in Chattanooga, TN cost $350 a month. You gotta buy some servers and maybe a colocation fee. Way less than $22,000 a month. Actually, while I was looking that up, a recent press release says they're deploying 10Gbit to homes for $299 a month. Things may have improved on business side, too. :)


> 1Gbit on amazon costs 22k/month

Is this 1 gigabit of accumulated traffic, or sustained bandwidth guaranteed for an entire month?

1 TiB of accumulated bandwidth at DigitalOcean costs me $5/month. I am unaware of what sustained rates are given that tier of pricing, however.


1Gbit/s for a month, 328.5 terabytes.

On the expensive end you'd be looking at around $600 for such at $NOT_AMAZON, and on the cheap end you'd get it for "free" because a plenty of hosts have excess bandwidth.

DO doesn't separately charge for BW or enforce any limitations AFAIK.




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