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As an aside, typical wholesale prices in the US, for moving 200gb of data is about 50 cents, or less. So what is current cloud pricing for 200 gb of egress?

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Yev from Backblaze here -> We charge $0.01/gb for egress. With this Alliance announcement, that'll be $0.00 from Backblaze B2 to Cloudflare. We have similar partnerships in place with Packet and ServerCentral already!

Not exactly a fair comparison to other Cloud providers on cost for egress, since you largely just do backups. So most data is incoming rather than outgoing. I assume you don't charge for incoming data either, and most providers don't...just adding a caveat as to why you are so so cheap compared to AWS and Azure.

Our Online Backup service is primarily for backing up computers, but Backblaze B2 is used for a wide variety of things including origin-stores, and those use-cases are pretty in-line with what folks use Azure and GCS for - so should be pretty similar - unless I misunderstood!

I guess I should say I mean you aren't offering compute services so you probably have less egress than the others, afiak. Just a wild guess.

AWS starts at $0.15/GB, so $30. It's an unbelievable ripoff, particularly given if AWS is peered with your destination they are actually paying $0.

Azure is $0.08/GB, which still seems high

> they are actually paying $0

Nope, they have to pay transport to the peering point (or own it).

They already own it with their global network, and their customers already pay for the infrastructure and capacity. The per-use bandwidth costs are pure profit.

How much is a 10 gigabit peer connection? I know you can buy 1 Gb connections for $500/m at some datacenters.

Plus the rack at one of the supported colo neutral of the peering exchange say $800mo usually an equinix or telehouss,plus the cross connect $300mo, plus redudant protected circuits to your data center from the incumbents, plus juniper/Cisco/arista 100gb gear, HA/failover double the prior, plus your onsite hands or remote hands, plus the SFPs and sparwa, plus insurance plus all sorts of shit just for a NAP - presuming you don't have one already at said location.

There a lot more to costs than pricelist for LINx, or Deix or whatever advertise. this a great announcement from cloudflare

If you don't have a rack full of equipment you don't need to pay for a full rack. How much bandwidth can a single 10gb port handle? Literally 10000 times 200gb in a month.

Do Telehouse / Equinix facilities do half racks nowadays at their NAP orientated facilities? I'm sure they do at their subrate places but not as many choices (rephrased s/subrate/acquired: ones they've acquired over the years, but they're poor for connectivity)

I have a dedicated server with a colo provider that has its own 10GB connection. Most definitely don't need a full rack of gear.

I'm not talking about peering, or transit. I'm talking about transport.

In what region? I see $0.09/GB as the starting price for the first 1 TB.

Granted it’s still way overpriced but it’d be $18, not $30.

For one of my products this is single handedly 50% of our costs on AWS.

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