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I agree that the price is high but you're not comparing the same things. Is the $500 a month DDOS protected bandwidth with as much redundancy as AWS is providing? I definitely shift as much bandwidth away from AWS as I can with any solution I make but they do provide more than a dumb pipe

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> Is the $500 a month DDOS protected bandwidth with as much redundancy as AWS is providing?

Sometimes you don't need that.

AWS S3 provides reduced-redundancy options for less cost. It'd be nice if the same applied to other services.

Ditto. The other point to make here is that AWS is not the only game in town. I agree they're not an inexpensive option, but there are even some small "mom and pop" cloud providers that are cheaper and easier to use than AWS. However, until they stop gobbling up market share there will always be ancillary markets that will work to support those that invest in their services.

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