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A GB of outbound transfer on AWS costs about 0.09$.

If the page is 55KB, that means that a single GB is about 18K page loads, but let's make that 15K page loads due to various overhead.

To spend 2000$, you'd need to send about 22TB, which are about 330M page loads.

> To spend 2000$, you'd need to send about 22TB, which are about 330M page loads.

That equates to 330M/365d = ~900k loads per day.

> it's now grown to about 6 million hits per day, and that's just the traffic that makes it through to the landing page [0]

So he's paying a discount, even.

But that’s not accounting for gzip.

This. Firefox's dev tools says 3.38KB transferred (including redirect and favicon). Taking that into account, it's closer to 5 billion page loads.

Well if he’s getting 6 million a day that’s a little over 2 billion hits a year. Maybe he’s overprovisioned an AWS instance or something.

I think he's including the transfers from twitter in the 55kb (which is over 50k of it), which wouldn't cost him anything personally